Obama's Eisenhower Plan
During Saturday's radio address, President-Elect Obama said that he would make the largest investment in the infrastructure of the Nation since the Eisenhower Administration when he invested in the National Highway System. That is certainly a laudable goal that needs to be put in place after eight years of neglected infrastructure maintenance and improvements by the Republican Bush Administration., but immediate assistance is needed by the Nation's retailers and family-owned businesses that currently provide the bulk of American jobs. The focus has been on the Financial Industry and then shifted to the Auto Industry, but the bulk of jobs created in this Country are created and maintained by the small businesses that line the streets of Main Street and populate the strip malls and malls of the Nation. The neighborhood florist is not a corporate chain but rather 26, 000 independent family businesses that employ approximately at least 156,000 Americans. 57,000 pizzerias spread t...