I think you are being too charitable, assuming that the situation is a result of their ineptitude. They aren't failing. They are pursuing their agenda exactly as they said they would. In order to increase the size and dependancy on government, it is necessary to minimize and cause hardship on the individual.
Confiscatory taxes on small business will cause the reduction and eventual elimination of small business. The fascist regime is using 'bailout' money to take control of large industry and finance, but that won't work for small business. Too much of small business is privately or family owned and can't be bought with stimulus dollars. So the alternative is to tax them out of existance.
In the short term this will create greater revenue for the regime to use in taking over other large corporations. In the long term, this will eliminate competition with the new government entities, and cause many more individuals to become dependant on government for their subsistance.
This is truly about skinning all of us. It seems that the path taken by our fascist regime is not one of ignorance, but of calculated fraud purposely undertaken to pursue their agenda.
Eventually we will be like the North Koreans, eating grass and the bark off of trees and praising Dear Leader. Glad I'm old and won't be around to see it.
Hitler smiles, the Nazis are winning.