If you're feeling inclined to be paranoid, there's plenty of fodder for you in this week's microbusiness news.

Congress has dozens of ways at its disposal to let us know that microbusinesses are not important, and they use every single one of them when the opportunity presents itself.

So, for that matter, does the President.

And, while the folks at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue may regularly forget about microbusinesses when it's time to dispense policy goodies, they remember us quickly enough when they feel a need to appear muscular and punitive.

Yes, if you want to look at it that way, it can often seem as if policy makers love to ignore microbusinesses, when they're not kicking us around instead.

Then, when they want to take a break from doing that stuff, they start talking about how much they love small businesses — the engine of the economy, you know.