[Fab4Fan]

Bingo! With the tax cuts, especially for small businesses and Sub-chapter S's that GWB got passed in 2003, I firmly believe that SB formation and SB hiring is picking up. There are also billions of new Federal $ being appropriated for DoD and DHS that they want spent. In the DC area, where I am, new SB's, mostly started by former employees of the usual suspects (CSC, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, NGIT, etc.) are popping up all the time, just to meet the demand for contractor support, that by law cannot all be awarded to large firms. These will never be counted as "jobs created."

[lelio]

There are also billions of new Federal $ being appropriated for DoD and DHS that they want spent. In the DC area, where I am, new SB's, mostly started by former employees of the usual suspects (CSC, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, NGIT, etc.) are popping up all the time, just to meet the demand for contractor support, that by law cannot all be awarded to large firms. These will never be counted as "jobs created."

The feds should start spending more money as it creates jobs! What percent of the GDP is now related to government spending now?