I petition the US government of 2013, to authorize 1 trillion dollars to give away in government grants to small businesses (5 people or less) in the job sectors most affected by Walmarts growth, in the hopes of keeping our local economies in our town/cities in America alive in the Walmart/ Dollar Store era.
The SBA [currently, according to their own website] does NOT provide grants for starting and expanding a business.
See:
http://www.sba.gov/content/facts-about-government-grants
This is a major problem.
We now have a cabinet level post for the Small Business Administration (SBA) since 2012 when President Obama elevated the SBA chief to a cabinet position, This post should finally receive money from the federal annual budget more easily than the SBA has in the past 30 years!