[mdittmar]

Damn Republicans!

[Thom Pain]

Any small business owner who would borrow money in such a massively uncertain environment is just CRAZY!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Breaking the bank, one bill at a time and buying votes in the process. 28 billion here, 30 billion there, and with a Federal budget of well over 3 Trillion, (2.6 trillion more than Bush.) it really must have been Bush that caused this mess. And, they will destroy the economy and this country to prove it.

[sionnsar]

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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What do you mean "Damn Republicans?"
This is all about making small businesses jump through hoops and paperwork to get crumbs. Most of the billions will go to bureaucracy anyway.

If you want to help small businesses, cut their taxes.

[OrangeHoof]

For all the billions the government is spending on our behalf, shouldn't we have FULL employment with rebate bonuses for everybody instead of 18% unemployment (or underemployment) and teetering on the edge of a depression? Just asking.

[tflabo]

Doing everything but reducing taxes and government spending.
Definition of insanity = DemoRats!

[EGPWS]

Damn Republicans!

Don't blame Republicans, Republicans are liberals second best friends.

Blame conservatives that vote Republican just because the letter (R) is appealing.

Republican never has, doesn't, and never will equal conservative exclusively.

Place your vote wisely.

[dalebert]

ya...rotten republicans...no more spending. what Republicans voted for todays binge spending?

[GatorGirl]

When will these tools get it through their thick democrat skulls that business people don’t need to borrow money, they need to EARN the freaking money?

[sergeantdave]

I’d guess that only black businesses qualify.

BTW, is the black farmer scam still taking applications? I have a black cat that farms mice.

[SatinDoll]

This is too little, too late, and it doesn’t solve the bigger problem of over regulation of small businesses.

[Libertynotfree]

Why should we need another bill for small business? We still have our stimulus money in the bank somewhere you don’t dare to ask.

[Silverdrake]

I think everyone missed the real reason for this bill. From the article: “The $30 billion lending fund would allow the U.S. Treasury Department to purchase preferred stock in small banks with assets of less than $10 billion. The banks would repay the money at an interest rate that would decline as their small-business loans increased — encouraging them not to just sit on the cash.”

“purchase preferred stock” = government ownership of banks. And while it says they’ll repay the money, it doesn’t say when (if) Treasury will return the stock to the banks.

Although I do wonder, should the banks fail, if Treasury would be left with worthless paper as the preferred stock owners of GM were.... Nah. I don’t think banks are extorted by a large union that regularly stuffs Democrat campaign coffers.