" David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small
Business Administration a "billion-dollar waste-a rathole," and set out
to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack
on an agency better known as the "Small Scandal Administration." Loans
to criminals, government contracts for minority "fronts," the
classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and
other scandals-the Small Business Administration has lurched from one
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