Using Beer To Stimulate Small Biz?
The U.S. public is bubbling over with ideas on how to spend the billions of dollars set to flow to states from the federal stimulus program — including six-packs of beer, airboats and bathtubs.
Thousands of suggestions have poured into websites states have set up to give residents updated information on the money and where it might be spent, and in some cases asking them to submit their own ideas. Ohio, for example, had received a whopping 11,373 proposals.
Some of the ideas for tapping into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act posted to the sites go beyond typical bricks-and-mortar infrastructure projects like roads and bridges.
One Virginia resident proposed a “shovel-ready” idea to lift small business development by giving a six-pack of locally brewed beer to every adult in the state. The cost would be $48.6 million with the assumption that the beer’s price would average $7.99.
Another Commonwealth citizen suggested giving seniors and the disabled $2,500 apiece toward renovating bathing facilities in their homes, pointing out that the move would also help small contractors in the state.
Wisconsin, which is sifting through more than 1,700 proposals submitted to its website, is planning to hook up worthy ideas with the appropriate state department.
“It’s not really off-the-wall stuff, it’s just people who are just trying to make their part of the world a little better,” said Gary Wolter, director of Wisconsin’s office of recovery and reinvestment.
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home based business on March 2nd, 2009 2:29 pm
I love it, give everyone beer, I suspect in hindsight ( a couple years) one might determine it would have been a wiser path than the one being trod.
cassy on March 2nd, 2009 4:31 pm
many people love to drink beer.me too making it to stimulate small business is a great idea for people who love beer, that really awesome.
danakeith on March 3rd, 2009 4:27 am
Amazing!
beer drinker people would really love it very much…
Jaclyn on March 3rd, 2009 6:47 am
I’m sure the beer drinking public would love that idea to get free beer even if it was only one six pack. but…i think there are much better ideas to do with the money that each state get’s. we have been spending a lot of time complaining about these large companies spending their bail out money on large parties with expensive dinner parties and private concerts…well…if we use bailout money for such thing’s as giving people free beer…then we are no different from those large companies.
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