Going for the Government Bailout money
We’ve all heard about the massive amount of money the government is planning to put in the economy to try and jump start it. Billions. Hundreds of billions. Some say approaching a trillion dollars. 350 billion dollars has already been pumped into the financial sector as of this writing (January 2009).
How do we get a piece of that bailout pie?
We’re not greedy. We don’t need a lot of that money. A small fraction would be great – a million or two dollars would be just fine.
Since you most likely are in or own a small business, chances are that you are realistically not set up to work directly with the government. It is not that easy to be a direct vendor with the government. There are forms to be filled out, and paperwork to be done just to be set up as a federal government vendor. Then most government vendors have a full-time staff just to keep up with the paperwork that the government demands of their vendors. And then, once you get to that point, you still have to submit lengthy proposals and bids just to try and get a project with the government.
