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This is CBS I'm the world.

I'm John Batch with my colleague and friend Jean Marks of the Guardian newspaper UK and

US edition as well as the small town of the small business commentator and columnist

for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

We come now to Jean's occasional column in the Hill.

This column is on fire.

The fact is that Jean is impatient with National Small Business Week.

Why so, Jean?

So, I do write every other week for the Hill and it is my chance to have a bit of a rant.

And this time my rant was about National Small Business Week which comes every year.

It's usually around the first week in May.

I am, as you know, a small business owner and a small business advocate.

I cover small businesses and I absolutely hate National Small Business Week.

I believe it is a joke and it is a force because all it does is it serves not small businesses

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