| President Obama is not poised with pen in hand, ready | | | | preference in its contracting procedures. In fact, the |
| to cut you a check to ease your debts. He and the | | | | government awards some lucrative, long-term |
| federal government are ready, however, to give you | | | | contracts exclusively to women, minorities, and |
| the means for working-out some of your credit | | | | veterans. |
| difficulties. | | | | Especially the five branches of the armed services |
| The United States government is the world's largest | | | | and the Department of Defence limit bidding to |
| consumer, and it needs everything. Literally. Anything | | | | veteran-owned businesses; and, right now, contracts |
| that life requires, the federal government needs, | | | | are up for bid that offer opportunities to deliver |
| because it supports hundreds of thousands of military | | | | everything from eyeglasses and healthcare supplies to |
| families around the world, and it supports millions more | | | | major HVAC systems and high-tech electronics. Of |
| families at home in the United States. It also numbers | | | | equal note, the Veterans Administration and several of |
| among the world's largest business organizations, so | | | | the armed services currently invite bids of |
| that the federal government needs everything required | | | | veteran-owned businesses, encouraging them to bid |
| for running a business. Somewhere, in that vast flood | | | | on contracts for retrofitting major installations to make |
| of everything, you can find the niche that will make you | | | | them more energy efficient. You have opportunities to |
| a government contractor. | | | | secure long-term work, which will help dig you and your |
| Especially if you are a veteran of the armed forces | | | | family out of debt. If your project creates jobs, you will |
| and own your own business, you have unprecedented | | | | win major tax credits on top of your contract |
| opportunities for becoming a government contractor. | | | | payments. |
| Similarly, if your family has a long history of economic | | | | To learn more about your contract opportunities and |
| disadvantage, you trace your roots through an ethnic | | | | begin the application process, simply visit Federal |
| minority, or you count yourself among thousands of | | | | Business Opportunities on the web; go to the official |
| bold women who have started their own businesses, | | | | website. |
| the federal government accords you some | | | | |