Private Economy Networking

I just received an email from The Maine Arts Commission announcing stimulus funds for non-profit organizations and the Union of Visual Artists - so if you are among the non-profit organizations and the unions, then you are among the chosen few blessed with "stimulus" funds coming directly from the taxpayers via our government.

For those of us left out of the loop- i.e. the private economy and non-union workers, it seems we have to find our own way to deal with the huge debt the government is gifting to the people, through our own initiatives.

This especially applies to small businesses since large businesses seem to have ready access to the financial resources of our government.

There exists an online people to people financing network http://www.prosper.com/. I do not have any experience with this network upon which I can offer any advice or recommendation so all I am doing here is letting others know that it exists.

If anyone has any experience with this network, please feel free to comment here.

Or if you have any ideas on how the free and private economy can network together for our mutual benefit, speak up and I thank you.

ODE to Glen Beck

While O’Reilley deplored,
That financial distress was ignored,
He fears that Glen Beck will depress us.
But Glen Beck did predict
That a meltdown would hit,
With insights that some thought had left us.


Some they believe
That spending will relieve
The debt that sends economies sinking.
And that those that oppose
The party in charge
Should silence the thoughts they are thinking
But Beck, he is there
To lead us out of despair
With humor and truth without blinking
He helps us define
Our new paradigm
And inspires a pure way of thinking.