Small Businesses are suffering - who is to blame?

[Anonymous]

If you are a small business owner, or are close to anyone who is, then you know first-hand that things are not going well for small businesses right now.

My question - who do you blame the most for this??? Obama? Wall Street? Bush? Congress? Sure, they all deserve some of the blame, but who deserves it the most?

I would love to hear from those of you who can base you comments on actual facts. FYI - FOX News and MSNBC should not be considered factual. Both are opinion networks.

Discuss...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a small business owner, or are close to anyone who is, then you know first-hand that things are not going well for small businesses right now.

My question - who do you blame the most for this??? Obama? Wall Street? Bush? Congress? Sure, they all deserve some of the blame, but who deserves it the most?

I would love to hear from those of you who can base you comments on actual facts. FYI - FOX News and MSNBC should not be considered factual. Both are opinion networks.

Discuss...

I'd blame the banks. This is all still the aftershocks of the banks. And I blame Republicans for failing to do enough to regulate the banks.

[Anonymous]

The economy sucks. The government doesn't control it. I know the gov't has done a lot to make credit available to some small businesses including one of our family companies, and that's good. But demand is what it is.

[Anonymous]

People who want cheap, cheap, cheap.

Employers who want profit, profit, profit so they don't pay people properly, which leads to people wanting cheap, cheap, cheap.

The country who thinks it's the gov't job to control everything instead of being more proactive by supporting small businesses with their $$, initiating campaigns, etc.