Small Businesses Say They Are Prospering

I found this article on B2B’s website yesterday in which the results of a poll of 500 small businesses were discussed. It is a short article but reveals that 65% of small business owners and decision makers rate their own business conditions as “good.”  32% rated their conditions as “poor.”

The irony of this is that the same 500 people rated the economy as “poor” to the tune of 71%!  I guess they focus on the evening news too.  I’ve linked to so many positive articles in the past year, that I personally can not believe our economy is in what I would consider “poor” conditions.  Could it be better, of course.  Could be be worse?  Alot worse.

We have short memories in this country.  Our economy, nor anyone else’s can sustain fantastic growth or conditions forever.  Economies like anything else need to take a breather so the dust can settle, and while we’re paying more for food and gas, our economy is also GROWING, a fact we have seem to lost sight of.  With all that’s going on in the housing market and with costs of staples like food and energy, we’re still forging ahead!  Yet turn on the evening news and get your daily dose of “the sky is falling!”

So the positive news for today is that a very good portion of small businesses are doing “good” and that’s good for our economy.   This country, which is the sum of all of the people, is much stronger and more resilient that the mainstream press would have us believe, and they’ve yet to talk us into a recession.  But don’t expect them to give up.  Doom and gloom sells for some stupid reason…

Tags: good economic news, Positive Economic News, small business, small business conditions