[PeterPrinciple]

Good ideas attract money, Money attacts bad ideas

[MineralMan]

And your chicks for free...

[Rakkasan1]

we could lure the terrorists to the golf course with strippers and booze and then have Karl Rove initiate a lightning storm with his weather machine

[PsyOp]

* And — this one's a killer — the application from an Oregon funeral home knocked 'em dead in Washington. (Maybe the 9/11 attacks gave Oregonians a new lease on life, hurting business.)

this may be the only legitimate one. Oregon, after all, is a bastion of liberalism. Oregon's liberal Democrats were suffering bouts of suicidal depression after the [s]election of George W. Bush as President. 9/11 was just the boost they needed. America really was as bad as they always thought (why else would we be attacked), and that it was Bush's fault (maybe we can get him impeached and Gore installed as the environmental pres.).

I imagine the decrease in liberal suicides hurt the funeral home immensely.

[untrained skeptic]

Just a small note.

These are small business LOANs.

If the small business succeeds, the loan will get repaid and the government will also get greater tax revenues. I considerable number will not succeed and will default on those loans at some point, however this money wasn't simply given away.

I definitely do not approve of how the SBA failed to use the money as is was supposed to be used. I believe this should be investigated, and there are likely a number of people who should get fired over this.

If there is evidence of fraud involved, it should be investigated.

However, many if not most of these small businesses did nothing wrong other than apply for a small business loan.