Phillip Tilley

The 51% minority

September 8, 2010 |  5 comments
Image Credit: sxc.hu Well to be honest it is only 50.7% but I have rounded to the nearest whole number to get 51%. If it is good enough for government economists it is good enough for me. Who is the 51% minority you might ask? It is women of course. But if women comprise 51% of the population in the U.S. how can they be considered a minority?

According to the commerce department and the U.S. Census Bureau, women are a minority when it comes to owning and running a business. Women owned 6.5 million businesses in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available from. This is 28% of all nonfarm businesses in the U.S. and had revenue of more than $939 billion. This of course does not include illegal business like drug sales and prostitution for which the commerce department and Census Bureau do not have statistics.

This is not to be confused with the number of women who are bosses, or as the Census Bureau calls them, “management positions”. 38% of management positions are held by women compared to 32% of males in management positions. If you are like me you have added this up to 70%. I guess the other 30% of management jobs are held by hermaphrodites or space aliens or nobody at all, which would explain a lot about the failing economy. Out of the twenty-two bosses I have had in my life, thirteen of them were women, or at least I believe they were.

One of my friends we will call Larry runs a contracting business. All the paper work shows the business belongs to his wife. She is a nice lady but she has nothing to do with the business. She is part of the statistics of women owned business. Larry told me if it looks like a woman owns his business he can get lower interest loans and special preference on government contracts because it is a “minority” owned business.

So not all women owned businesses are in fact owned by women. This should not be confused with bi-women that own businesses which the Census Bureau does not keep records of. But this is America, the land of equal opportunity. In a true capitalist society there should be no special treatment of anyone and no special groups that are given an advantage in business. The free market should determine by supply and demand and true equal opportunity through unregulated competition which businesses survive. It is about time we stop thinking of ourselves in our own little special groups and think of ourselves as Americans.

You should not have to be a Tootsi or a Mrs. Doubtfire to get loans and contracts. Years ago I was beaten out for a promotion by a woman that did not even meet the minimum qualifications for the job. I had the degree and the experience and I had worked hard to get there, only to be told I did not get the promotion because I was a man. I am not alone in this respect so I am in good company.

If we keep coddling incompetent people in management and business ownership positions that should not be there this country will fall into ruins. Oh, that is right, we are already there. I propose a new category of minority individuals. They are the hard working Americans that cannot get a break. Wake up people, the money matrix has you.

Phillip Tilley is author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles.[!gad]Well to be honest it is only 50.7% but I have rounded to the nearest whole number to get 51%. If it is good enough for government economists it is good enough for me. Who is the 51% minority you might ask? It is women of course. But if women comprise 51% of the population in the U.S. how can they be considered a minority?

According to the commerce department and the U.S. Census Bureau, women are a minority when it comes to owning and running a business. Women owned 6.5 million businesses in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available from. This is 28% of all nonfarm businesses in the U.S. and had revenue of more than $939 billion. This of course does not include illegal business like drug sales and prostitution for which the commerce department and Census Bureau do not have statistics.

This is not to be confused with the number of women who are bosses, or as the Census Bureau calls them, “management positions”. 38% of management positions are held by women compared to 32% of males in management positions. If you are like me you have added this up to 70%. I guess the other 30% of management jobs are held by hermaphrodites or space aliens or nobody at all, which would explain a lot about the failing economy. Out of the twenty-two bosses I have had in my life, thirteen of them were women, or at least I believe they were.

One of my friends we will call Larry runs a contracting business. All the paper work shows the business belongs to his wife. She is a nice lady but she has nothing to do with the business. She is part of the statistics of women owned business. Larry told me if it looks like a woman owns his business he can get lower interest loans and special preference on government contracts because it is a “minority” owned business.

So not all women owned businesses are in fact owned by women. This should not be confused with bi-women that own businesses which the Census Bureau does not keep records of. But this is America, the land of equal opportunity. In a true capitalist society there should be no special treatment of anyone and no special groups that are given an advantage in business. The free market should determine by supply and demand and true equal opportunity through unregulated competition which businesses survive. It is about time we stop thinking of ourselves in our own little special groups and think of ourselves as Americans.

You should not have to be a Tootsi or a Mrs. Doubtfire to get loans and contracts. Years ago I was beaten out for a promotion by a woman that did not even meet the minimum qualifications for the job. I had the degree and the experience and I had worked hard to get there, only to be told I did not get the promotion because I was a man. I am not alone in this respect so I am in good company.

If we keep coddling incompetent people in management and business ownership positions that should not be there this country will fall into ruins. Oh, that is right, we are already there. I propose a new category of minority individuals. They are the hard working Americans that cannot get a break. Wake up people, the money matrix has you.

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