Tag: Obama
Obama’s Proposed Reorganization – Help or Hindrance?
President Barak Obama has proposed a wholesale reorganization of several government agencies that deal with various aspects of business and trade. The plan would merge business functions of the Commerce Department with the Export-Import Bank, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Small Business Administration and the Trade and Development […]
Obama for America?
By George Mitrovich Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office January 20, 2009. The challenges he inherited on that historic occasion were as great as faced by any president – including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt; any assessment of Mr. Obama’s presidency not accounting for those challenges would be dishonest. With that […]
Reviewing the Small Business Lending Fund
The numbers are in, the “winners” have been chosen, and in this case there doesn’t even seem to be much left to shout about. After the usual hype and ballyhoo, President Obama’s much vaunted Small Business Lending Fund has ended with what Thomas K. Brown described in iStockAnalyst.com as “a thud.” Out of a total […]
Is Unemployment Un-American?
Unemployment has become a major topic of concern and debate here in America. My worry is not about the people that use unemployment to get a new job or better yet use the opportunity to start a business. My fear is creating a sub-class of people that expect to be taken care of, with little […]
