<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>.... check out the 19 minute mark of this speech to small businesses ... </div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/16/Help-for-small-business-condemnation-for-AIG-bonuses/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/16/Help-for-small-business-condemnation-for-AIG-bonuses/</a><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; ">Help for small business, condemnation for AIG bonuses</span></div><div><br></div><div>And if you have the time you'll find the entire 25 minutes very helpful if you own a small business = 99.7 % of all businesses in America.</div><div><br></div><div>But I digress ....</div><div><br></div><div>Check this out as President Obama speaks of Hewlett Packard, McDonalds, Google <b style="font-size: 23px; ">and Apple</b> .... all started as small businesses.</div><div><br></div><div>------ start clip --------</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">So entrepreneurs and their employees pay an enormous price. But the whole country pays a price, as well, because less lending leads to fewer jobs and lower spending, which leads to less lending -- a vicious cycle that delays our recovery. And small businesses don't just provide jobs -- they provide the innovations that help us lead in the global economy.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Smaller companies produce 13 times more patents per employee than large companies. Now, think about it. Hewlett-Packard began in a garage. It was a small business. Google began as a research project -- small business. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">The first Apple computers were built by hand one at a time -- small business.</span> McDonald's started with one restaurant. Marco, I know you've got ideas. (Laughter.) Small business.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-small-business-owners-community-lenders-and-members-of-Congress/</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; ">------ end clip --------</span></p></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>