President Obama heads to Allentown
Tomorrow President Obama will visit Allentown, PA to see how two small businesses are faring despite the economy.
Thu, Dec 03 2009 at 3:49 PM EST
Today, CEOs, organization leaders, and others joined President Obama at the White House to brainstorm about the nation’s unemployment crisis. In addition to the White House event, the Obama administration is encouraging community leaders from across the nation to hold their 
own community jobs forum. The ideas brainstormed in the community meetings will then be compiled and presented to President Obama.
own community jobs forum. The ideas brainstormed in the community meetings will then be compiled and presented to President Obama.Tomorrow, as a follow-up to today’s event, President Obama will be visiting two Allentown, Pennsylvania small businesses to see how they are managing to stay afloat despite the nation’s economy. Obama will visit Egypt Star Bakery and Applied Separations, Inc, a company that provides training for individuals in the green tech industry.
In advance of the visit, the White House released a video of the two small businesses and the sacrifices that they’ve had to make to keep their doors open.
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Comments
Jerry Petrole Sr.
12/03/2009 23:21 PM
I'm a small business owner who is totally disgusted with the presidents inability to lead us out of the current job crisis and the wasting of "Stimulus" money.
Here are some tips for the Pres:
1.Small Business have had their credit lines cut by banks that will not make loans to them while making millions of interest dollars on bailout dollars. The president must make banks make loans NOW!
2.Banks will not make 90% SBA Guaranteed loans to small business. The President should.... More
