Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced a special conference to discuss increasing the flow of credit to small businesses, no information about the date, time, location or attendees has been made available.
The diversion of federal small business contracts to large corporations is the SBA's #1 challenge. But Karen Mills, the SBA Administrator from Maine, has refused to mention the issue or adopt any policies to address it.
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During his campaign, President Obama promised to halt the rampant abuses and released the statement, "It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.
Though Maine state government employs 14% more people for these job categories than New Hampshire, the contrast in where we hire personnel is dramatic.
The American Small Business League has done more to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms than every other so-called small business group in the nation combined.
Since 2003, over a dozen federal investigations have been released which found thousands of firms such as British Aerospace (BAE), Rolls-Royce, AT&T, Wal-Mart, Xerox, Home Depot, General Dynamics, Raytheon, John Deere, Dell Computer and Dutch conglomerate Buhrmann NV have all received federal small business contracts.
