I am a disabled person who wants to start a small business. I want to get off disability. I have two degrees in computer science & want to start a consulting firm. Funding is almost impossible to get right now. Banks have been bailed out, and are solvent, but aren't freeing up money for small businesses. Oh, they're loaning alright, but only to each other, at zero percent interest, so they can make more money betting on derivatives. With our money!
So, unless I want to borrow 30 million dollars, I'm not being considered. And the GOP just filibustered a small business bill (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/us/politics/30cong.html)that would have forced banks to free up their lending, so we're in limbo. In the meantime, all our bills are going up, food and fuel, water & electricity, going up and up, but our income is flatter that the great salt flats.
Man, it's getting almost impossible to make it in America anymore.
