[Daisyjane69]

Microfinance is one of the great things is economics. And it’s a brilliant strategy for him to adopt. You can Google examples of it, but simply stated, it’s along these lines:

Let’s pretend you live in a poor neighborhood, but you have a talent, a real gift for sewing. You can sew anything, alter anything, make old things look brand new again. All you need is a newer, better working sewing machine and you can hang out a shingle. Microfinancing is what will deliver that sewing machine to you. Presto, you have just created an entrepreneur...and probably a conservative, to boot.

One of the more famous microfinance outfits: http://www.kiva.org/about/microfinance/

He’s the next one I scrape up money to donate to:

http://www.faulknerforcongress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56

[hoosiermama]

mmmm Stanley Anne Dunham Obama Sutero work in Microfinancing

[quintr]

Wasn’t it a gentleman from India a few years ago who got the Nobel Peace Prize for microfinancing poor entrepreneurs in India?

[Ann Archy]

Thanks for the KIVA link!!