Are you tired yet of hearing about all the billions being spent as part of the "stimulus" package?  Billions for Wall Street.  Billions for big banks.  Billions for Detroit.  Billions and billions of our kids’ money.  AND THERE’S NO ACCOUNTABILITY!!

Ok, lets step back for a moment.  What Congress says (and this is BOTH parties) is, these businesses are too big to fail.  Maybe that’s true, I’m not an economist.  But the reality is, over half the businesses in the US are home based.  The government says the majority of jobs are created by small business.  So where is our stimulus?? 

Hello????

Is anybody listening?  No!!

The focus in Washington isn’t on us.  It’s on all these big businesses who have loud voices in Washington.  You’d think someone would stop and think.  With all the trillions of dollars (yes, that’s trillions with a capital "T") being spread around, you’d think some would go to stimulate the parts of the economy that will actually make a difference … Small and home based businesses.

Yeah, I know.  The banks are supposed to help us.  Right.  Have you called your bank recently and asked for money to start a business or to even expand the one you have?  What did your banker say?  Probably not something like, "I can have that money in your account today.

So that means we need to find our own ways.  There’s no handout, bailout, support, or anything coming from Washington for us.  

And you know what?  That’s actually fine with me.  I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder. I don’t want to feel obligated to anyone. I don’t want anyone getting in my way.  I want to run my business.  But it would be nice to know that my kids won’t have to pay back lots of money that didn’t stimulate anything other than someone’s sense that they needed to do something, without thinking about the best way to do it.

Written by Philip Cohen