hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"jps" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:31:44 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


State run SBA *is* too small. I am proposing a temporary federal
version of
SBA to get things started, funded by the already approved bailout
funding.

Eisboch


Have you seen what the federal gov't did with the program it initiated
to help victims rebuild their homes in NO? Yikes. Bureaucrats are
good at layering bull**** between good intentions and execution.


The mistake made there was depending on a bureaucratic government to
execute the details of
the program. The government is good at approving and allocating
money, that's all.
Make the funding available to hands-on people that know how to get
things done.

Normally, I wouldn't even propose federal funding for new company
start-ups (or even SBA loans) because I think learning how to
self-fund a company is as important as the product or service you
provide. However, given the crisis that currently exists and the
increase in un-employment, a temporary avenue for start-up funding
using federal money (now being completely wasted on bailouts and so
called "stimulus" packages) would be money much better spent in the
long run with benefits to the economy and country that are more
concrete and long lasting.

Just an idea.

Eisboch



Reduce government regulation at the local, state and federal levels
and cut long term capital gains to 5%. Let businesses be businesses
and not bureaucracies. Get the current capital in the market working
again.

We've had eight years of little or no regulation...no thanks. We're
supposed to trust business to do the right thing, when its motivation
seems to be greed and short-term profit? The behavior of business gives
me no warm and fuzzy feelings we should return to the 19th century.

When you have to come up with a recycling plan before you can open your
doors but, there is nobody who will pick up your recyclable materials
because they can't sell them. The cost of new materials is cheaper than
the recycled materials yet you are forced to recycle. The trash guys
won't haul away recyclable materials because it is illegal for them to
do so you have to pay somebody an exorbitant amount of money to come and
get your recyclable materials which are going to sit in a pile and
become a fire hazard. Why, it is just a waste of time and money.

My wife's lab has to file all kinds of paperwork with the county due to
the fact that she has some chemicals, most of them are less than 1 liter
and none are more than 2 liters. This puts her lab on the lowest level
of hazmat. But, because she can only buy mercury in 50 lb packages it
moves her up to near superfund site level. It takes her about 10 or 12
years to go through 50 pounds of mercury. You should see all of the
paper work she has to do just because of that.