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Opening Business
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Question: If our small businesses were to hire Iraqis to
translate our web sites into Arabic, could that help bring peace to the
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National Small Business Week: In May 2004
in Orlando, Don Evans, Secretary of Commerce, and Hector Barreto, SBA
Administrator, held a joint Town Hall Meeting to discuss pressing small
business issues in the nation. It was televised on CNN/fn. |
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At this Town Hall Meeting
Bruce
Camber, asked questions about the possible impact small businesses could
have if they were to hire Iraqis to translate their web sites into Arabic.
Though both Evans and Barreto enouraged the development of the concept, the
SBA, Commerce, and State (DOS) are such deep bureaucracies, it would take them
years to create an infrastructure to help make anything happen. |
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Each small business owner is like a
soverign state. You can decide to do anything. You invent each day, each
week, each month and each quarter. Hector Barreto and then Secretary of
Commerce Don Evans both supported the concept that the small businesses of the
USA could help. If enough were involved, it might help to turn around the
direction of this war. Who wouldn't want to support our troops and bring peace
to Iraq? |
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Such activities could serve everyone's best
interests; For us, it opens new commerce and mutual understanding. After a
person translates web pages into Arabic, he/she would be in position to begin
advising their small business client (that's you and me) further to position
those products and services to sell into the Arabic world. The result,
extending the essentials of democratic capitalism, might help to change the
dynamics of the region. |
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The work of Prof. Michael Novak of the
American Enterprise Institute is an important study of the first principles of
democracy and capitalism (link in lower right box). All of us need to spend a
little time studying such foundations so we can readily articulate the essence
of this country's economic, political and moral systems. Though this initiative
began at that time, not much has happened, but that can change.
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Why not spend a few dollars directly with
some Iraqi people? The Baghdad Job Center is open today, 24x7. Invite somebody
to translate your web site today! |
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| Patriotic -
idealistic - optimistic |
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| Market to
Billions More People |
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| Translate your web site,
first into Arabic (over a billion people), then Chinese (another billion),
Hindi (another billion), and Spanish (another billion). |
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| Why not? It'll push each of our
businesses in new ways, plus we can make a difference in this world. It may
cost us a few thousand a piece today. That's business! And perhaps, that's
opposed to paying it out in taxes. Although some would argue, most governments
do work to try to bring a little peace to the world. |
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| Many very fine Iraqis
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Baghdad: The Baghdad Job Center will
have 1000 translators in line once the word gets out on the street. When we
first posted our job opening, there were virtually 15 people who signed up
overnight. |
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| We can change the way the
world sees the USA, sees our culture, our beliefs, and historic toleration of
all religions. |
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| Our television culture has
polluted the world's opinion about this great country. And,
so much of television has even polluted our
own self perception. |
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| Things need to change. There
are 25 million of us small business owners. There is no other singular group in
the USA with both the financial resources and the power of their will to do
it. |
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| We encourage you to consider
having your web site translated in Arabic as a first step in opening your
business to the Arabic world. They have plenty of our dollars to buy product
and services that we can ship back to them. Our single greatest export should
be our willingness to start, run, and grow new business. |
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