SBA Response to New York Times Doesn't Add Up

In the letter entitled, "The Small Business Administration's Comeback," Carranza stated:
"The S.B.A. helps small businesses get government contracts. In 2006 (the last year with published data), small businesses reached a record level of federal contracts. Small businesses owned by women experienced their largest year of growth and hit a record level. Small disadvantaged businesses (generally minority-owned) hit a record level.

The S.B.A. has also led tough-minded efforts to improve the integrity of small business contracting data and to tighten the rules to qualify, reducing the value of contracts coded as small business by more than $10 billion, increasing new opportunities."

The first congressional hearing on the diversion of federal small business contracts to large corporations was held in May of 2003. Since then, the SBA and the Bush Administration have failed to stop the giveaway of federal small business contracts to large corporations. In fact, the Bush Administration has done everything it can to dismantle programs designed to assist small businesses from nearly every socio-economic background. For example, in 2006, the Bush Administration closed the office at the SBA solely dedicated to helping veteran-owned small businesses; and for the last 7 years it has refused to implement the congressionally mandated women-owned set-aside program.

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