HOW TO GET FULL EMPLOYMENT FAST: JUST DO THE MATH AND ACT!
There are about 3 million ultra-small businesses in the United States.
The first "Stimulus" math: $800 billion to save or create about 4 million jobs.
That is about $200,000 per job!
The average wage in ultra-small business ranges from $30,000 to $50,000/year.
Why not put that money at the root of the economy, instead of in the bigger and broken sectors? That is like watering the top of the trees during a drought, but not the roots. The water evaporates before it trickles down to save the life of the tree.
$200,000 times 3,000,000 ultra-small businesses in USA = $600 billion. This is 25% less than the $800 billion or so in the first Stimulus package! If each of these business owners filled just 3 jobs, that would be 9,000,000 jobs! Remember that natural unemployment is about 6,200,000.
There are not enough unemployed to fill all the jobs that would be created!
REALITY CHECK:
Local, ultra-small business employees and employers are the root consumers that drive the demand for the products and services of the larger, more capital-intensive enterprises and big business in the United States.
Needless to say, truly facilitating their growth would in turn strengthen the circulation of funds back to the government from existing taxes on these employees and their employers. A good program would include solid educational resources in the business of business for owners of ultra-small businesses, along with ready access to well proven tools for success in ultra-small business development.
Feel free to forward this link to your wide range of contacts and associations: if the Federal government really wants to create and save jobs, the ultra-small business community is a good place to start -- just get the barriers to funds out of the way, and provide cost effective management and technical assistance at the local level, i.e. good business educations and resources (means even more jobs).
We have to make ourselves heard.
John
John C. Randall*, Founder, Ultra-Small Business Alliance (in formative stages).
Business Development Advisory Services Since 1981. P.O. Box 2800 Mechanicsville, VA 23116 www.JohnCRandall.com and www.MasteringYourMarketing.com (* John is the content resource of many business development methodologies now used in every state in the United States; he also is the confidential advisor to a number of CEO's as their alternative resource to their Board of Directors -- the focus is on positive results; someone recently called him a "one-man economic development department").
See Contact page on this site if you would like to talk with John.
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