For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 15, 2004
Small Business Week, 2004
By the President of the United States
A Proclamation
The dedication and entrepreneurial spirit of small business owners
are vital to our Nation's economic growth and prosperity. We celebrate
Small Business Week to applaud the efforts of America's small business
men and women in our communities.
Small businesses are a central part of America's economy. They
create approximately 70 percent of new private sector jobs in this
country. As our Nation's economy continues to grow stronger, we must
encourage their spirit of enterprise.
To help small businesses invest and create more jobs, we have
decreased the tax burden. We have given small business men and women a
fair chance to bid on government contracts. We have a plan to create
more opportunity for America's small businesses and workers by making
health care costs more affordable and predictable; streamlining
regulations and paperwork requirements; reducing frivolous lawsuits;
making America less dependent on foreign sources of energy; and
permanently eliminating the death tax.
In this Small Business Week, we salute America's small business
owners and entrepreneurs and workers for their contributions to
America's prosperity and for making our Nation better and stronger.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 16 through May
22, 2004, as Small Business Week. I call upon all the people of the
United States to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies,
activities, and programs that celebrate the achievements of small
business owners and their employees and encourage and foster the
development of new small businesses.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day
of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-eighth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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