The answer to that question should be absolutely not. Unfortunately, the undeniable truth is they are. Government employees and private citizens that have exposed fraud, corruption and blatant violations in federal law continue to be persecuted and harassed in a variety of ways. In many cases the government has trumped

I don’t know about most Americans, but I’m much more concerned about the NSA than I am ISIS. You hear lot of talk about “freedom not being free” and young soldiers dying for freedom. I’m genuinely confused about what people are talking about. I’m not aware of any of my

President Obama has officially adopted the 30-year-old Ronald Reagan plan to permanently close the Small Business Administration (SBA) and end all federal programs to help the nation’s 28 million small businesses. When Ronald Reagan clearly announced his desire to permanently shut down the SBA and end all of its programs,

In President Obama’s State of the Union Address he gave quite a bit of lip service to “middle class economics.” He said we need to make sure the middle class economy works and we need to find more ways to help families get ahead, to make sure everyone gets their

Any day now, the Small Business Administration (SBA) will announce the final rule on the “safe harbor from fraud penalties” policy Congress included in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that President Obama signed into law. Under the “safe harbor from fraud penalties” policy a Fortune 500 firm, any

President Obama will sign the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) any day now and renew a Pentagon program that has cheated American small businesses out of hundreds of billons if not trillions of dollars in subcontracts for more than a quarter of a century. The 25-year-old Pentagon Comprehensive Subcontracting

I just won a landmark legal victory over the Pentagon yesterday. I’m forcing the Pentagon to release information that will prove they have cheated American small businesses out of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal subcontracts over the last 25 years. Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I requested the most recent information

Lately I have been hearing a lot of criticism about myself from my opponents in Washington. I decided to begin a campaign to respond with some facts. In May, American Express Open Forum named me one of the four strongest voices for small businesses in America. I was very flattered and grateful. In 2005

Say Bye Bye To The SBA With a Republican Controlled Congress I am not a Democrat and I’m not a Republican. What I am is a realist and a student of political history. I know now that Republicans control both houses on Congress, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the only

SBA Press Office Director Terry Sutherland has become invisible to the press in one of the biggest whirlwinds of fraud and controversy the SBA has faced in quite some time. Over the last few months the SBA has been hit with one bad story after another and yet Terry Sutherland who admitted