re: #2 Rightwingconspirator

Your numbers don’t invalidate anything in the article and home based businesses do not hire large numbers of employees individually. Very few expand outside the home.

The point was not to deny that many people are employed by small business, including husband and wife in a home business, or restaurant for example. The point is that very few of those will be stimulated to grow the economy by hiring more people to work out of their garage, or franchise their restaurant.

As to identified exporters, “exporter”, or “importer”, or “import/export”. It is a catch all category when filling out a business form.

I don’t know about the patent numbers, but I do know that I have a few patents myself, and doing something with them is a lot harder than getting the patent. Large resource organizations are much more likely to end up with a product than individuals.

These kind of statistics, when produced by an organization created to serve it’s own interests need to be analysed more closely. Would you take them at face value if they were uttered by Perry for Texas?