Too bad he doesn't have any data beyond supposition to support his claim.  Here's research from the Kauffman Foundation that qualifies that it isn't small businesses that create jobs, it's new small businesses: <a href="http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/kauffman-foundation-analysis-emphasizes-importance-of-young-businesses-to-job-creation-in-the-united-states.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/kauffman-foundation-analysi...</a><p>Besides... what jobs would meet his definition of "permanent, enduring and non-transitional" other than some government bureaucracies?