Bush Announces Initiative to Help Minority Entrepreneurs; Media Ignores it

The Entrepreneurial Mind (a blog) ^ | August 3, 2004 | Jeff Cornwall

[Bill Hobbs]

President Bush unveiled a new initiative to support minority entrepreneurship at his address to the National Urban League. Sadly, it appears that this announcement got lost in the politics of the day by a media uninterested in any of the real substantial public policy differences in this race.

Imagine that. The media ignored a major substantive initiative introduced by the Bush administration. What makes this particularly troublesome is that this is a program that tackles the problems of minority economic development with a self-sustaining approach, bringing together existing non-profits with the private sector. It creates a network to provide education, training, and access to key resources for minority entrepreneurs. These are the key elements that have proven to work for entrepreneurial economic development.

[Bill Hobbs]

Read the whole thing. And then write a letter to the editor of your local paper and ask them why they have failed to tell their readers - especially their minority readers - about this.

[jammer]

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and other Federal entities will combine their resources to help NUL local offices provide sustainable outreach and incubation of minority enterprise."

In fairness, endowments are listed above this paragraph as supporting the NUL. However, how is this a good thing for Federal entities to provide anything to anyone? Instead of publicizing it, I suggest hoping it won't be publicized so we won't be shamed.

[South40]

Excellent post. I'll wait to see if my local paper (the second largest in California) reports this.

My guess is, they won't.

[DoctorZIn]

This article has been posted to DoctorZin’s New News Blog!

[Libloather]

Do Big Media stories have to meet affirmative action standards? Doesn't sound like it...

[ETERNAL WARMING]

I'll write..GWB. I'm so sick and tired of the socialist giveaways I could scream! Do you realize how much we taxpayers have to fund for "special people?" What about the rest of us..barely making it on our wages. We could use a handout once in awhile. But it never comes. Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims are more special than we are.

I just paid 12% of my real estate taxes for "indigent healthcare." I can't even imagine what their foodstamps, housing assistance and kid's education are costing me. Yet here comes Bush with another socialist program so he can pick my pockets.

This sounds like another Democrat giveaway.

[cyborg]

Did you even read the article?

[ETERNAL WARMING]

this is a program that tackles the problems of minority economic development with a self-sustaining approach, bringing together existing non-profits with the private sector. It creates a network to provide education, training, and access to key resources for minority entrepreneurs. These are the key elements that have proven to work for entrepreneurial economic development.


Yes. Do you honestly believe this won't need funding? Do you honestly believe they'll be self sustaining because of this? A job will do the same thing and it won't cost us a nickel.

[cyborg]

Even if it's a small amount of tax money, I rather help the people around me born here ahead of illegal alient CHEATS. Of course, it would be great if it was ZERO tax payers, and if they're using the Small Business Administration those are tax dollars already slated for use by the BA.