I bet you were beginning to think I was going to skip this week’s podcast again. My apologies for being so late.

One housekeeping note, the snippet of song used in the middle of this podcast is from the pop-folk classic At Seventeen by Janis Ian. The song was released in 1975 by Columbia Records but I haven’t been able to find the precise copyright information to credit this properly.

(Sorry, Janis!)

Taking bets against the chance that another continuing resolution will be require to keep the SBA going until the agency and its programs can be reauthorized by both chambers of Congress. Once again, it’s tough to say why this has to take so long. It didn’t used to.

I now have a confession to make. At the beginning of this particular session of Congress, I thought that the noises I was hearing coming from several different quarters was a signal that perhaps there would be more discussion about microbusinesses and their idiosyncrasies and their particular needs.

That hasn’t happened, partly because everybody has been distracted by (a) the economy and (b) the health care reform shenanigans. The ins and outs of microbusiness is the sort of topic that people on Capitol Hill are likely to discuss when they have nothing better to do.

Then, too, the Man In Charge (aka President Barack Obama) clearly has no clue about microbusinesses or the self-employed and, to judge him by his rhetoric and the company he keeps, he couldn’t care less.

That’s disappointing, but not entirely surprising.

For more information:

• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
• House Committee on Small Business
 
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