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The American Small Business League Endorses Obama

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American Small Business League: Sen. Obama Will Protect Small Business and Help Remove Large Firms From Federal Small Business Contracting

Petaluma, CA -- Today the American Small Business League (ASBL) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President.

The ASBL is confident in Sen. Obama's leadership and commitment to American-owned small business. Since 2002, a series of federal investigations have found that billions of dollars in federal small business contracts have actually wound up in the hands of some of the largest corporations in the world. It is time for change and as Sen. Obama has so vehemently stated, "Yes We Can." The diversion of federal small business contracts to large corporations is a non-partisan issue that affects all Americans. Sen. Obama's record of rising above the influence of big business lobbying and his commitment to small businesses make him the best candidate to end dramatic abuses in federal small business contracting.

President of the ASBL Lloyd Chapman added, "I am so tired of being disappointed by our elected officials. For the first time in many years I am genuinely excited about this election. In my life, I have never been more excited about any politician than I am about Barack Obama. I believe that he holds the key to a new future for all Americans. I believe that with Sen. Obama in the White House, Americans are going to be more proud of this country than they have ever been in their lives."

"I am proud to have the support of the American Small Business League and their grassroots efforts to help protect American small business. Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual," Sen. Obama said. "98 percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation's economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."

Read the full article at Marketwire.
 

Larrry

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Did ya hear Joe the plumber endorsed obamer













yep he endorsed him, he thought he would make a good taxi cab driver
 
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Sandman said:
Oldtimer said:
American Small Business League: Sen. Obama Will Protect Small Business and Help Remove Large Firms From Federal Small Business Contracting

Petaluma, CA -- Today the American Small Business League (ASBL) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President.

The ASBL is confident in Sen. Obama's leadership and commitment to American-owned small business. Since 2002, a series of federal investigations have found that billions of dollars in federal small business contracts have actually wound up in the hands of some of the largest corporations in the world. It is time for change and as Sen. Obama has so vehemently stated, "Yes We Can." The diversion of federal small business contracts to large corporations is a non-partisan issue that affects all Americans. Sen. Obama's record of rising above the influence of big business lobbying and his commitment to small businesses make him the best candidate to end dramatic abuses in federal small business contracting.

President of the ASBL Lloyd Chapman added, "I am so tired of being disappointed by our elected officials. For the first time in many years I am genuinely excited about this election. In my life, I have never been more excited about any politician than I am about Barack Obama. I believe that he holds the key to a new future for all Americans. I believe that with Sen. Obama in the White House, Americans are going to be more proud of this country than they have ever been in their lives."

"I am proud to have the support of the American Small Business League and their grassroots efforts to help protect American small business. Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual," Sen. Obama said. "98 percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation's economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."

Read the full article at Marketwire.

Think you best do your research the Ohbahma camp is lying about this they have been called out by their attorneys to cease and desistfrom this lie.

Well here it is in Reuters too :

The American Small Business League Endorses Barack Obama
Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:05am
Today the American Small Business League (ASBL) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for
President.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS142460+26-Feb-2008+MW20080226

You sure it ain't Bush they are suing and wanting to string up for running roughshod over small business :???: :wink: :lol:

Washington Post Finds Bush Cheated Small Businesses Out of Over Half a Trillion Dollars in Contracts


Last update: 1:50 p.m. EDT Oct. 23, 2008
PETALUMA, Calif., Oct 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A recent story by the Washington Post concluded that over 40 percent of the contracts federal agencies were supposed to give to small businesses actually were diverted to Fortune 500 firms.

The Washington Post reviewed a sample of $13 billion in federal contracts that were reported as going to small businesses. In that sample, the Washington Post found over $5 billion or approximately 40 percent had actually been awarded to Fortune 500 firms such as Lockheed Martin, Dell Computer, L-3 Communications, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and British Aerospace (BAE).

The information reviewed by the Washington Post was the most accurate data the government has produced since 2000. In 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO) launched an investigation based on information provided by American Small Business League (ASBL) President Lloyd Chapman ( http://www.asbl.com/showmedia.php?id=10), which found thousands of large businesses were receiving federal small business contracts.
The ASBL projects that the volume of federal small business contracts that were diverted to Fortune 500 firms was much larger in the earlier years of the Bush Administration, before the problem was exposed in investigative stories by CBS, ABC and CNN. ( http://www.asbl.com/media2.php)

The most recent estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that approximately $140 billion in government contracts and subcontracts had been reported as going to small businesses each year.
The 40 percent figure uncovered by the Washington Post was just for Fortune 500 firms and other clearly large businesses. The Washington Post did not look at other large businesses that were not household names, but still would not qualify as small businesses. If all firms that did not qualify as legitimate small businesses were considered, the percentage could be much higher.
Several government officials have put the percentage of federal small business contracts that were diverted to large businesses between 50 percent and 86 percent.

Using the conservative 40 percent number uncovered by the Washington Post, during the eight years of the Bush Administration, approximately $448 billion in federal small business contracts would have been diverted to Fortune 500 firms and other large businesses.
Based on information obtained in a series of successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law suits the ASBL has won against the Bush Administration, the ASBL projects that during the eight years of the Bush Administration over $600 billion and possibly as much as $800 billion in government small business contracts were diverted to corporate giants in the United States and Europe.

In February, Senator Obama stated, "Small businesses are the backbone of our nation's economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants." ( http://www.asbl.com/showmedia.php?id=1002)
SOURCE American Small Business League

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/washington-post-finds-bush-cheated/story.aspx?guid=%7B37C4607F-6149-4EC6-B90D-A0A0CE0AA3FF%7D&dist=hppr
 

TSR

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
Sandman said:

Think you best do your research the Ohbahma camp is lying about this they have been called out by their attorneys to cease and desistfrom this lie.

Well here it is in Reuters too :

The American Small Business League Endorses Barack Obama
Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:05am
Today the American Small Business League (ASBL) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for
President.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS142460+26-Feb-2008+MW20080226

You sure it ain't Bush they are suing and wanting to string up for running roughshod over small business :???: :wink: :lol:

Washington Post Finds Bush Cheated Small Businesses Out of Over Half a Trillion Dollars in Contracts


Last update: 1:50 p.m. EDT Oct. 23, 2008
PETALUMA, Calif., Oct 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A recent story by the Washington Post concluded that over 40 percent of the contracts federal agencies were supposed to give to small businesses actually were diverted to Fortune 500 firms.

The Washington Post reviewed a sample of $13 billion in federal contracts that were reported as going to small businesses. In that sample, the Washington Post found over $5 billion or approximately 40 percent had actually been awarded to Fortune 500 firms such as Lockheed Martin, Dell Computer, L-3 Communications, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and British Aerospace (BAE).

The information reviewed by the Washington Post was the most accurate data the government has produced since 2000. In 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO) launched an investigation based on information provided by American Small Business League (ASBL) President Lloyd Chapman ( http://www.asbl.com/showmedia.php?id=10), which found thousands of large businesses were receiving federal small business contracts.
The ASBL projects that the volume of federal small business contracts that were diverted to Fortune 500 firms was much larger in the earlier years of the Bush Administration, before the problem was exposed in investigative stories by CBS, ABC and CNN. ( http://www.asbl.com/media2.php)

The most recent estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that approximately $140 billion in government contracts and subcontracts had been reported as going to small businesses each year.
The 40 percent figure uncovered by the Washington Post was just for Fortune 500 firms and other clearly large businesses. The Washington Post did not look at other large businesses that were not household names, but still would not qualify as small businesses. If all firms that did not qualify as legitimate small businesses were considered, the percentage could be much higher.
Several government officials have put the percentage of federal small business contracts that were diverted to large businesses between 50 percent and 86 percent.

Using the conservative 40 percent number uncovered by the Washington Post, during the eight years of the Bush Administration, approximately $448 billion in federal small business contracts would have been diverted to Fortune 500 firms and other large businesses.
Based on information obtained in a series of successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law suits the ASBL has won against the Bush Administration, the ASBL projects that during the eight years of the Bush Administration over $600 billion and possibly as much as $800 billion in government small business contracts were diverted to corporate giants in the United States and Europe.

In February, Senator Obama stated, "Small businesses are the backbone of our nation's economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants." ( http://www.asbl.com/showmedia.php?id=1002)
SOURCE American Small Business League

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/washington-post-finds-bush-cheated/story.aspx?guid=%7B37C4607F-6149-4EC6-B90D-A0A0CE0AA3FF%7D&dist=hppr

Otimer this has just just got to be a mistake. If Obama gets elected he's going to kill small business- right??? I mean thats what Sarah is saying all over the networks and the Republican commentators as well. And who would have thought George Bush would have sold out small business to giant conglomerates??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lets keep those tax cuts rolling for the giants lets ignore the small man that would keep more jobs here in America. Now who could support such an idea??? :? :?
 

Sandhusker

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From the ASBL website. You'll notice that they are really just a one-issue group; Federal contracts.

WHO IS THE ASBL?

The ASBL is a non-partisan group committed to addressing issues which cost small businesses $100 billion per year in federal contracts. The ASBL brings together small business owners, chambers of commerce and municipalities to form a focused voice to create positive change. Additionally, the ASBL is the only national organization fighting for the removal of large and international firms from federal small business contracting. 13 Federal investigations and 2 private studies have found fraud, abuse, loopholes, and a lack of oversight in small business contracting.
 
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Sandhusker said:
From the ASBL website. You'll notice that they are really just a one-issue group; Federal contracts.

WHO IS THE ASBL?

The ASBL is a non-partisan group committed to addressing issues which cost small businesses $100 billion per year in federal contracts. The ASBL brings together small business owners, chambers of commerce and municipalities to form a focused voice to create positive change. Additionally, the ASBL is the only national organization fighting for the removal of large and international firms from federal small business contracting. 13 Federal investigations and 2 private studies have found fraud, abuse, loopholes, and a lack of oversight in small business contracting.

And that is wrong :???: Sure a hell of alot better than your Chosen Champion who surrounded himself with lobbyists who stuffed $ Millions into his pockets from EADS and Airbus to guarantee the biggest defense contract in history goes to a foreign governments subsidized European corporation... :( :mad:
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
From the ASBL website. You'll notice that they are really just a one-issue group; Federal contracts.

WHO IS THE ASBL?

The ASBL is a non-partisan group committed to addressing issues which cost small businesses $100 billion per year in federal contracts. The ASBL brings together small business owners, chambers of commerce and municipalities to form a focused voice to create positive change. Additionally, the ASBL is the only national organization fighting for the removal of large and international firms from federal small business contracting. 13 Federal investigations and 2 private studies have found fraud, abuse, loopholes, and a lack of oversight in small business contracting.

And that is wrong :???: Sure a hell of alot better than your Chosen Champion who surrounded himself with lobbyists who stuffed $ Millions into his pockets from EADS and Airbus to guarantee the biggest defense contract in history goes to a foreign governments subsidized European corporation... :( :mad:

OT, so you think everything should go to the lowest bidder?? Doesn't work in the cow market now does it. And you don't give a ratzazz where the meat goes just as long as you get the money.

Reminds me of the guy questioning the astronaut about the shuttle ride...He said something to the effect of "taking a ride into space on something with 5 million parts....all built by the lowest bidder". And we wonder why only 2 have exploded.
 
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I don't think foreign government subsidized companies should even be included in the bidding- especially when some of those countries have out and out told us to stick it when we asked them for help.... :(

Especially when we (US) have WTO challenges against those countries/companies for their activities which impede competition.. :mad: :mad:
 
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