"Empower the job engine of America: our small businesses"

D: Man! The “mixed class” President Lincoln expresses admiration and concern for in his December 3, 1861 address to Congress is reflected today in the “mixed economy” of the United States and World. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine make very clear that they will do everything to sustain a mixed economy—one which embraces public and private sector industries—through legislation encouraging more small businesses to take flight than ever before in the history of our republic, our nation, our beloved United States of America.         

M: Dude! Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are dedicated mobilizers and unafraid to be held accountable by US, the constituents. According to the fourth edition of Robert L. Barker’s textbook The Social Work Dictionary, mobilizers take on… Let’s see here. Page 306 reads as follows, that mobilizers take on

...the responsibility to help people and organizations combine their resources to achieve goals of mutual importance. This is accomplished by bringing clients together, enhancing lines of communication, clarifying goals and steps to achieve them, and devising plans for gaining greater support.

D: Man! In the case of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, mobilization will be accomplished by not bringing clients, but constituents together and then, as Robert L. Barker defines in his dictionary,

...enhancing the lines of communication, clarifying goals and steps to achieve them, and devising plans for gaining greater support.

M: Dude! You’re right! And that is how those goals of mutual importance to constituents shall be achieved by Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine! Clinton and Kaine reiterate the importance of small businesses to our mixed economy in their transparent treatise for all of US, entitled rightfully so as Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America’s Future and reads as follows, beginning on page 22,

Empower the job engine of America: our small businesses.

Small but mighty, America’s small businesses create nearly two-thirds of new jobs, drive innovation, and help hardworking entrepreneurs provide a middle-class life for their families.

America is meant to be a place where anyone with a good idea and the willingness to do the hard work of seeing it through can build a successful business. That enterprising spirit helped build the strongest economy in the world. Harnessing that spirit for the twenty-first century will require extending opportunity to every American, no matter their race, gender, or background, to build a business, realize a dream, and support their family.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs need access to financing and credit to build, expand, and hire more Americans. Lending has recovered since the [2008] crisis, but it’s still hard for new firms to get credit. A Federal Reserve Survey found that the current market is especially hard for the smallest firms and start-ups. And more than half of small businesses face payment delays, which can cause serious cash-flow problems and hold back small businesses from being able to invest in new inventory, expand their production, or even meet payroll.

And despite the fact that millions more women have opened businesses and become their own bosses in recent years, they’re still starting out with about half the financial capital compared to their male counterparts and are still less likely to run their own businesses. Like women, Latinos and African Americans start their small businesses with roughly half the capital a white male would typically have access to. In many cases, these entrepreneurs do not even apply for loans because they are afraid of being rejected. More dreams die in the parking lots of banks than anywhere else.

Not only is that unacceptable, but it could actually hurt economic growth and hinder economic opportunities for too many Americans. According to research, women- and minority-owned small businesses saw far faster growth of sales, receipts, and values of shipments than other small businesses. Moreover, researchers have found that by starting their own businesses, women and minority Americans can reduce gender and racial wealth gaps with white men. By supporting American small business owners and entrepreneurs, we can build ladders of opportunity for them and their families.

That’s why we will:

1. Cut red tape that holds back small businesses and entrepreneurs. Right now, it takes longer to start a small business in the United States than it does in Canada, South Korea, or France. That’s not right. We will simplify our overly complicated federal regulations and work with states to remove barriers that make it too hard to get a small business off the ground.

2. Expand access to capital. Small businesses need financing and credit to build, grow, expand, and hire. But the smallest firms and start-ups struggle the most to access the credit they need to open their doors. And on average, women small business owners start out with just half the capital men do. That’s why we will expand federal funding for loans, training, and mentoring for small businesses. And we will double the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which supports organizations that provide between 65 and 90 percent of loans to historically underserved small business owners, so we can help even more entrepreneurs get started.

3. Expand access to new markets. Every small business should be able to tap new markets, whether they are on the other side of the state, the country, or the world. That’s why we will invest in our infrastructure and work to harness the power of the Internet to help more small businesses find new customers. And we will stand up for American workers by supporting the Export-Import Bank and other policies that drive American exports.

4. Provide tax relief and simplification. Small businesses with one to five employees spend an average of 150 hours and $1,100 per employee in order to comply with federal taxes— twenty times higher than the average for bigger companies. We will provide tax relief and simplification for small businesses so they can focus on what they do best: expanding their companies and hiring more Americans. And we will reduce the capital gains tax rate to zero for qualified small business stock held for more than five years.    

D: Man! Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are facilitators of change that will build our democracy, not shred it threadbare as schemers like the Koch Brothers and charlatans like Donald Trump plan to do. Did you watch the presidential forum moderated by NBC’s Matt Lauer from Wednesday, September 7, 2016? I’ve got the transcript right here! I got it online from Time’s website. Donald Trump’s revelations are truly predatory and selfish. Here’s a quote from Trump himself from that forum moderated by Matt Lauer, I watched the televised version too and the two do, indeed, jive perfectly, meaning the videotape and Time’s transcript.

[Donald Trump:] And if you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They’ve been doing it. And it’s not a pretty picture.

The — and I think you know — because you’ve been watching me I think for a long time — I’ve always said, shouldn’t be there, but if we’re going to get out, take the oil. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil.

[Matt Lauer: How were we going to take the oil? How were we going to do that?]

[Donald Trump:] Just we would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. They have — people don’t know this about Iraq, but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world, in the entire world. And we’re the only ones, we go in, we spend $3 trillion, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then, Matt, what happens is, we get nothing. You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils. Now, there was no victor there, believe me. There was no victor. But I always said: Take the oil. One of the benefits we would have had if we took the oil is ISIS would not have been able to take oil and use that oil to fuel themselves.

M: Dude! Schemers and charlatans like the Koch Brothers and Donald Trump are going to be sending our precious sons and daughters in uniform into treacherous battles in order to secure the oil supplies for whom? Themselves, of course!

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