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发帖数: 29846 | 1 March 25, 2012 | Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Hosannas. Obama has finally cut some federal spending. But noting which
agency he shut down is sort of emblematic of his whole welfare/big
government-pushing presidency.
On Friday, the Department of Commerce announced that it would be shutting
down all five regional offices of the Minority Business Development Agency,
an agency that was created by Richard Nixon to help develop minority
businesses.
The administration claims that it will be saving around $30 million per year
by eliminating the offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Los
Angeles, and San Francisco.
Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush is not too happy about the decision.
“It sends the wrong message to entrepreneurs and businesses in our
community at this time when we need to have an expansion,” Rep. Bobby Rush
(D-IL) said. Rush offered legislation to increase funding to the Minority
Business Development Agency.
“This is message administrating, message management and message
politics. It doesn’t have anything to do with the bottom line. The best
message is one of expansion of the MBDA so it can do its work and meet its
mission on the ground level and on the local level on the front line,” Rush
added. Rush added that he has had a great working relationship with the
regional office in Chicago.
Lauren Victoria Burke reports that several other minority congressmen,
including Florida Congressman Allan West, were just as unhappy as Rep. Rush.
Lots of annoyed congressmen, to be sure. Still, doesn’t this just seem to
fit the Obama administration to a tee? Eliminating business oriented
initiatives yet expanding on his welfare oriented ideas? They don’t call
Obama the “food stamp president” for nothing, after all.
So, to what effect is Obama’s enlarged “war on poverty”? The Heritage
Foundation thinks Congress should start asking questions.
Congress should ask pointed questions about why the war on poverty
continues to escalate more than four decades after it began. The Obama
Administration’s expansion of the welfare state, in combination with its
effort to define poverty up, does not bode well for economic freedom in the
United States.
The so-called war on poverty has failed, yet Obama wants to use money that
might have gone to business-lifting agencies like the Minority Business
Development Agency and put good money after bad.
It pretty much sums up Obama’s presidency.
**UPDATE**
A note from the MBDA for everyone’s information:
Mr. Huston,
Apologies if my colleague at the Minority Business Development
Administration already reached out to you, but I saw your recent blog post
on the administration and wanted to ensure you had a recent blog post with
info on what MBDA is doing to strengthen support to minority-owned firms, http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2012/02/24/mbda-strengthening-support-minority-owned-firms authored by MBDA Director David A. Hinson.
Thanks
Sarah R. Horowitz
Deputy Press Secretary
I said I’d pass along the note. |
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