Green Energy Grants tied to Small Business Survival?

Since there are grants available for green energy entrepreneurs, and since businesses such as our own face the possibility that if the Cap and Tax Bill passes that it will become too expensive to continue to produce our line in America- which has been our committment since 1952, when our company was established with the philosophy of creating a hand made product affordable for the middle classes - I am wondering if there is a way for the recipient of green energy "stimulus" grants to develop energy saving windmill technology at a drastically reduced cost for busnesses threatened by what is reported to be a 40% hike in the cost of energy - or in Obama's own words Cap N Tax will "necessarily skyrocket everybodies energy consumption"



We would also like to develop an plan for transforming our family business into a private economy business that we can leave to the benefit of future generations- and since such a plan would involve creating new production spaces, it could be designed as an energy efficient, environmentally controlled building. I do not know how any manufacturing can survive in the country if energy costs go up 40 percent unless they have access to an inexpensive form of energy such as windmill technology is reported to be.

Slip-cast production provides for meaningful and satisfying work. Our best employees have always come from the deeply rooted Maine community. Meaningful work is important to well being. It took years of difficult struggle to get our business off the ground through bootstrap capitalization. It would be a shame to see it lost forever.

But these days with Obama targeting those making over 250 thousand dollars for escalated extraction of funds to finance a rapidly increasing federally controlled government, even boot-strap capitalization is being threatened. Small businesses that file as s-corporations report business profits on a personal return. The profits reported on personal returns are used for both personal expenditures and re-invested into the business as "boot-strap capitalization”. The more the government extracts to fill its own pockets, the less there is available for the bootstrap capitalization of the small business economy

The upside – maybe this is a good time for investing in slow growth businesses, that might see a escalation in profitability in the future, when we may have a more private economy friendly administration.

A Modern Day Civil Revolution n the USA

There is a Modern Day Revolution taking place in America, which comes as close to being a civil war as we have seen in our lifetimes. On the one hand we have a vast network of radical “community organizer”, who, as it is gradually being revealed, are responsible For writing the legislation that Congress has been, until now, passing without reading. One of the groups that is largely credited with writing legislation is The Apollo Alliance - a project of the Tides Center, a Tax Exempt 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Non-profit growth in this country first began escalating in the 1960’s. Like many small businesses non-profits are S-Corporations whose income is re-invested in the organization- but under the new tax structure small business income is capped at 250,000.000, when the tax increases needed to fund the growing fusion of government, nonprofits, large industry, unions, and large banking interested is extracted from the small business community, which is largely left to fund itself through boot-strap economics. The small business sector is highly individualistic and outside of the centralized fusion of power and money that their self-generated small business profits is needed to fund.

While the radical left has a highly developed community organizer network- now in charge of writing legislation which Americans have elected our representatives to write- the opposition has talk radio and cable news, of which, continued existence is threatened by the legislation that is attempted to be enacted through Congress. We have Fox news they have Apollo Alliance and the president is sending the message to the American public not to listen to cable news, which is likely factoring in to the steadily growing audience of Fox News.

Power to the People

Letter submitted to Congress.org
Dear Senators Snowe and Collins,

I watched President Obama give a nationally televised speech supporting the current stimulus bill before a group of Democrats, in which he congratulated himself for reaching across the isle to Republicans but drew the first applause of the evening when he packaged and disposed of all opposing ideas as "tried and worn out". He would unlikely have received such a response from an audience of the people whose support for this bill has dropped to 37%.

Obama received applause from Democrats when he mocked criticism of their stimulus bill by saying "of course it is spending, that is what stimulus is- it's spending"- Cleverly washing over the fact that while stimulus may be spending all spending is not stimulus.

Since it is apparently the belief of the current administration and party in power that the solution to our economy is to spend as much money as possible and it doesn't matter what it is spent on, I would like to make the case for RADICALLY increasing the amount dedicated to CAPITALIZING SMALL BUSINESS!

In the version of the bill that I have seen, out of 920 billion dollars, there is only 430 million slated as loans to small business and out of that 4 million is for administration.

And yet small business is described as "the engine of new job creation", which indeed it is.

There is much talk about whether or not tax breaks will stimulate the economy-, which is dependent on whether or not people spend or save their money.

I submit that the most certain way to insure that people spend their money is to capitalize small business in a major way. America, is, after all, "the land of opportunity" and to inject money into the capitalization of small business is to inspire opportunities in the minds of the people, who are, after all, the ones who have to pay for all this spending.

There are so many people with dreams of starting their own business but who have never had the necessary capital. Capitalization of small business would stimulate the energy and minds of communities all across America. A person with a local perspective can identify solutions that are not necessarily visible from a bird’s eye view. People who are given opportunities to invest in their own ideas are inspired with HOPE - and this will cause them to spend more freely.

Investing in small business is an investment in the middle class and a democratic society is the strongest when there is a strong and vibrant middle class.

Capitalizing small business gives Power To The People, as opposed to power to big banks, big corporations, and big government, which are arguably "tried and worn out ideas".

Please RADICALLY capitalize Small Business and give Power to The People!


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