“Now we know. Two million of the ‘good jobs’ America needs to create in the next five years are to come from doubling American exports. So President Obama promised Thursday. We are to have a ‘National Export Initiative,’ an ‘export promotion cabinet’ consisting of representatives of several federal agencies, a private sector advisory committee on international trade, and promotion of exports by a president who will get tough with our trading partners who ‘have not played by the same set of rules’ as we have. Push exports, and make it more difficult for our trading partners to send stuff to us, unless they conform to our notions of proper labor and environmental standards. This approach is consistent with the administration’s philosophy that the best way to solve a problem is to erect still another government apparatus.” (03/13/10)