As promised last week — and just to demonstrate that I haven’t abandoned my subscribers completely during my usual annual hiatus — here’s a bit of a preview of microbusiness policy in 2009 by a real feet-on-the-ground: Kristie Darien, executive director of the National Association for the Self-Employed Legislative Office.

As I mentioned in the podcast, a lot has happened since this interview was recorded just a few days after Barack Obama was elected 44th President of the United States.

All things considered, it’s kind of silly to start complaining about him when he hasn’t even been sworn in yet. There are question marks about his choice for SBA Administrator and how in-touch she really is with small businesses (as opposed to entrepreneurial gazelles).

For that matter, I’m wondering how in touch Mr. Obama is when he keeps talking about jobs and wages (as opposed to work and income). In some ways, some of the languages he uses seems to indicate quite a bit of 30-year-old thinking.

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More to the point, as I discussed with Kristie, the new Congress will be interesting to watch. “Ever time there’s an election, it’s a whole new ball game,” and since Committee assignments haven’t happened yet, we don’t know what we’re working with yet.

Plenty of time to really start complaining down the road, right?

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