Members of the small business community are invited to participate in an upcoming live webchat with US Small Business Administration leader Karen Mills.
Administrator Mills will be answering your questions via White House Live and the WH Facebook app on Monday, November 16 at 3:15pm.
Read below for more information about the event or post your questions for Administrator Mills in the comments.
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From: Karen Mills
Subject: Small Business Financing Forum
Friend:
A few weeks ago, President Obama asked the U.S. Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury to convene a forum to discuss how we can best get credit flowing to small businesses to help them make it through this recessions, and put them in a position to grow and create jobs.
We're hosting the forum next week, and I want to make sure that everyone with a stake in our recovery has their voice heard.
And whether you can make the chat or not, I'd like to invite you to submit a question ahead of time by emailing us in advance. We'll post the full video of the chat afterwards.
I'll be able to share the concerns of small business owners I hear in the chat with the President and Secretary Geithner, at the Small Business Financing Forum and in our conversations and meetings afterwards.
The President called for this forum because he knows that small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and that they're driving our recovery.
We want to open the doors and bring everyone who's involved in this historic effort to the table -- from Administration officials and Congressional leaders to lenders and small business owners like yourself - so we'll also be streaming the conference at live WhiteHouse.gov/blog, Wednesday, November 18th, starting at 9am EST.
Ms. Mills,
I wrote in a question for the webinar today asking how increasing the 7(a) limits form $2 million to $5 million helps all those millions of businesses that can't get a loan in the first place. Raising the limits ONLY helps larger businesses that aren't the least bit distressed.
Instead of asking my question, your assistant attributed a softball question to you from me that I never asked and had no relationship to the question I had asked. It is deceptive and dishonest to attribute to me a question I would have never asked.
It is bad enough to ignore most of the most prevalent questions today, but much worse to make up questions no one asked and attribute them to people in the webinar who would have never asked that question. Where is the transparency? How is this change you can count on?
I look forward to your response. I sent all my contact information to the SBA help desk.
Chuck Blakeman
Ms. Mills,
I wrote in a question for the webinar today asking how increasing the 7(a) limits form $2 million to $5 million helps all those millions of businesses that can't get a loan in the first place. Raising the limits ONLY helps larger businesses that aren't the least bit distressed.
Instead of asking my question, your assistant attributed a softball question to you from me that I never asked and had no relationship to the question I had asked. It is deceptive and dishonest to attribute to me a question I would have never asked.
It is bad enough to ignore most of the most prevalent questions today, but much worse to make up questions no one asked and attribute them to people in the webinar who would have never asked that question. Where is the transparency? How is this change you can count on?
I look forward to your response. I sent all my contact information to the SBA help desk.
Chuck Blakeman
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