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Day July 26, 2007

Aid for small business revamped or canceled?

It feels like Arctic winter.The insults to small business carry on and on in this piece and I am left with a few questions: What is wrong with wanting to stay a small business and have some life balance?Why don't they do the things we all pay them for, to make our lives easier, for instance by reducing red tape?Why are politicians, who do not know the first thing about running a business, always try to tell us, the business community, what we should do?But it is not all bad news he want to hear from us, he asked us:WHAT SHOULD THE MINISTER DO? Write to him at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET or e-mail him direct at mpst.timms@berr.gsi.gov.uk.Here is an idea, maybe one could stop changing names so often, it would save money i.e waste less of our tax-payers money, be good for the environment, get people less confused and could - although I'm not sure about this one - increase productivity in these departments, maybe?Why not write to him, I will?

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