Subj: CREATE JOBS. Co-sponsor S.1438. Stop Over-Regulating Small Businesses.

Dear [Senator/Rep] [Last Name]:

We the undersigned respectfully petition you to CO-SPONSOR and PASS Senate Bill S.1438, the Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act of 2011.

This bill provides that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 7.7 percent. Federal government agencies already have too many regulations harming small business. S.1438 will stop creation of new regulations until the unemployment reaches 7.7%.

American small businesses are the life-blood of the American economy. S.1438 will halt the Government Agencies from expanding regulatory compliance costs, which amounts to a "hidden tax" that in 2008 cost American business more than $1.75 trillion.

The Small Business Administration gives ten reasons to help small business in America:
  1. Small businesses make up 99.7 percent of all United States employers.
  2. Small businesses create more than 50 percent of the American nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
  3. Small patenting firms produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.
  4. The more than 24 million small businesses in the United States are located in every community and neighborhood.
  5. Small businesses employ 50.1 percent of the United States' non-farm private sector workers.
  6. Home-based businesses account for 53 percent of all small businesses.
  7. Small businesses are 97 percent of America's exporters and produce 26 percent of all export value.
  8. United States saw an estimated 580,865 new small firms with employees start-up in the last year measured.
  9. There are approximately 4,115,900 minority-owned businesses and 6,492,795 women-owned businesses in the United States, and almost all of them are small businesses.
  10. The latest figures show that small business creates 65 percent or more of America's net new jobs.
  11. Please support S.1438, and help give JOBS to American workers!

    Sincerely,
    [YOUR NAME]
    [ADDRESS]
    [CITY], [STATE] [ZIP]