Women must be willing to speak up in order to develop their financial knowledge, use their God-given skills to communicate, and recognize their accomplishments in the same way men do, unwilling to let themselves be defined by anything but the value they offer to their clients or customers.

FORBES: Independent Business Women Now Determine Economic as Well as Political Agendas

In the end, it comes down to a decision by Republicans that they are unwilling to do what the American people say they believe should be done, which is ask the very wealthiest Americans, millionaires and billionaires, to pay a little bit extra so that we can achieve the kind of deficit reduction and long-term debt control that we need.

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Although it should still, in theory, be profitable for banks to lend to small and medium-sized companies, they seem unwilling to do so.

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