Afganistan, Small Business, Economy, Internet and Fcc

  Regarding Sen Snowe’s Small Business loan legislation shake out-trying to pull the plug.   It should have been a $100 Billion Program. Small business creates the most jobs, buys the most goods and services and it’s “multiplier” effect on the economy is larger than big business because the money turns over faster.
  While we are at it, TARP should have been a tax cut/tax incentive in the same vein. America’s economy is consumer-driven and giving people back their own tax money allows them to spend into a productive recovery.
  Not only that, as far as Recovery goes, Consumer dollars are used more rapidly in the economy and have the most positive effect on jobs, quicker.  The banks and investment companies to this day have not taken their losses on their greed-driven investment products; are using government money to drive profits while failing to do what we asked them to do-make loans and help business. The worst is still ahead in the housing markets.

 Regarding Bill Taylor at Harvard Business Blog, “The Genius of Not Knowing..”

 A leader knows that he doesn’t know everything; finds people who can find out anything.
  A leader teaches by learning; is endlessly curious, soaks up information like a sponge, “stays on task,” gets everyone to “buy in” to the Vision in the mission statement. Spends most of his time developing a structure that recruits and rewards and right people for their successful work, monetarily and psychically. Spends more time “outside the box” both figuratively and physically, than inside.
  Challenges everyone to do better tomorrow than today, value family as the support mechanism that it is, and coaches everyone from top to bottom to find ways to improve themselves both behaviorally and in expanding their knowledge base.
 ”You can have my job when you can do it better than me.”    Regarding FCC attention to Net Neutrality, Monopoly control of Infrastructure (with FTC help, we hope), and Separation of Content-the entertainment, Search and other Internet-driven programming-from Infrastructure-the management, maintenance and development of the “pipeline” and delivery of the Content.   It’s amusing that the highly tarnished “pots” (the Cable, Telco and Wireless monopolies) are calling the ideologically disadvantaged “kettles” black.
  Separation of Content and Infrastructure is the only true way to introduce and develop competition for Access and for Content presentation. 
Reasonable access at reasonable prices ensures that diversified Content finds it’s voice: Changing monopolistically-generated and subsidy-supported Infrastructure pipelines into competitive access gateways is absolutely necessary.
  Cable, Telco and Wireless have to “spin off” their Content(programming, ISPs, Premium and Pay-per-view , other) into separately owned and managed companies so that Content providers can compete.
Content providers will have to offer combinations of programming using both metered and tiered usage business models that will guarantee lower competitive prices for consumers and business, and many, many more Content products and services.
  If the FCC (with the FTC’s genuinely offered input) fails to lead the way to Separation of Content and Infrastructure, we’ll know who’s been “persuaded” by lobbying, contributions and other pressures to again make the American Business and Consumer the victims in another regulatory rape by ideologues.  

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