The President of the America Small Business League (ASBL), Lloyd Chapman, is using yesterday’s release of the annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard by the SBA to attract more attention to what he believes is a significant problem. He claims the numbers produced each year are fabricated to hide the fact that many of the “small businesses” are actually large corporate subsidiaries and divisions taking contracts that should be going to businesses that actually are small.
On the heels of the report being released this post in the Huffington Post: Mainstream Media Should Expose Billions In Abuses In Government Small Business Contracting
The post starts off:
For the ninth consecutive year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has released fabricated and inflated data on the volume of federal contracts awarded to small businesses.
He goes on to say:
Since 2003, over a dozen federal investigations have been released, which found Fortune 500 firms and thousands of large businesses have received billions of dollars in federal small business contracts.
He thoroughly blasts the mainstream media for not covering the story to help expose and solve what he believes is widespread corruption and incompetence that is hurting small businesses and our economy.
He’s doing his best to accomplish his mission by speaking out, blogging, writing articles, and creating videos that he posts on YouTube:
- CNN Money posted a short article by Chapman, The big think: How to fix the SBA, in which he asks for significant boosts to the budget to help expand the SBA field offices.
- Went on the Glenn Beck show to discuss the issue as he sees it (video below)
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American Small Business League
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