Ed Leafe wrote:
> "A man convicted of stealing more than $600,000 in a business loan
> scam received an award from the National Republican Congressional
> Committee honoring his business leadership and party support."
>
> http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050428/
> NEWS01/104280031/-1/news01
>
> ( -or- http://tinyurl.com/bj8td )
Hi Ed!
I think this sort of thing crosses party lines. I recently was set up to
pay a large fee to get a $17,000 SBA business loan. The loan was
magically reduced to $4000 but the fee was not adjusted. Couldn't do a
thing about it, SBA couldn't, or wouldn't, do anything either.
SBA is a bureaucracy, permanent government, predominantly D almost by
definition - oh, yeah, there will be an R or two here or there. Elected
folks in my neck of the woods are currently Rs by and large (they used
to be Ds), but whoever they are politically, power is power and money is
money.
Both power and money seem to bring out the worst people, and bring out
the worst in good people. Both the Ds and the Rs have their share of both.
Regards,
Pete
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