It seems pretty clear that microbusiness owners are due to start squawking.

Regular readers might recall several occasions when I’ve mentioned that I don’t normally do themes with my newsletter but, occasionally, they happen anyway.

If there’s a theme this week — and, in some ways, it certainly seems like it to me — it is that the squeaky wheel really does get the grease.

This past week has been a curious combination of a certain amount of hot air about President Obama’s yearning for regulatory reform and the typical State of the Union pre-game show. In all this, there has been a lot of the standard rhetoric about how wonderful small businesses are and how we are going to pull the country’s collective economic chestnuts out of the fire.

Except, of course, that nobody who either says or even thinks those things is talking about us — about microbusinesses.

That’s because policy makers and academic economists tend to think that microbusinesses are useless unless they’re doing a certain set of things in a certain way.

Of course, some people might consider it to be impolite to point out that the certain set of things and the certain way in question belong in a previous century. So, since I generally try to be polite, I’m not going to point any of that out.

I will simply say that it seems to me, in the months that The MicroEnterprise Journal was on hiatus, that somehow microbusinesses have been silenced.

Some of that has to do with the leadership. It’s been pretty obvious for quite some time that this Administration is friendly to large corporations, medium-sized and growing “small” businesses and the kind of classic entrepreneurship celebrated by outfits like the Kauffman Foundation.

But some of it simply has to do with noise. There aren’t very many voices in Washington raised on behalf of microbusinesses, right now.

You know what that means, right?

That means it’s about time for 27 million wheels — the “engine of our economy,” don’t you know — to start squeaking.

It would be pretty hard to ignore that, wouldn’t it?