McCutchen: The enemy within
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its subsidiaries—the largest traffickers of illegal Mexicans and OTM’s and purveyors of Foreign Trade Zones.
The Chamber is a major component in job-killing activities known as “free trade”. “Free trade” is a misnomer. There’s nothing free about the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s use of the phrase “free trade”. It is government mandated trade. What we should have is Fair Trade. Since Geo. W. Bush and his band of neo-con corrupters, our nation has lost 6 million industrial jobs.
In his famed poem, Mending Wall, the American poet, Robert Frost chided the rock wall that he and his neighbor would mend each spring, replacing fallen rocks. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’”
According to the Associated Press, Obama says he is making difficult cuts in the nation’s budget to allow needed spending increases in education, technology and public works projects.
I guess you may have noticed that I have been keeping to myself lately. I just haven’t felt the urge to write anything, that is until this evening. Like everyone else, I have been watching the events unfold half way across the globe in Egypt. I really haven’t had much to say about it until I heard a couple things on NBC Nightly News tonight.
“Just listen to that roar,” urged a CNN correspondent in Egypt, as thousands of Egyptian protesters charged, fists pumped, against hundreds of armed Egyptian security forces. What a roar it was, indeed. The protests have shown the world that Arabs are capable of much more than merely being pitiable statistics of unemployment and illiteracy, or powerless subjects of ‘moderate’ but ‘strong’ leaders (an acronym for friendly dictators). 
“Tis a terrible thing to witness the death of an old friend, body riddled with disease, emaciated, disfigured and racked by convulsions, his youthful energy and happy disposition a far distant memory. One wishes for a merciful death and yet one holds out hope that somehow your old friend will miraculously be healed and restored to good health, even though you know in your heart that death has him firmly in its grip.”
Will the Supreme Court overturn the part of the health-care law that penalizes people who don’t buy insurance for themselves? A few months ago, the answer that experienced Court-watchers gave was “not a chance.” Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University who once clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy, said “there is a less than 1 percent chance that the courts will invalidate the individual mandate.” Now, the best we can say is, who knows? 
Most American’s would agree that the number of extreme issues currently confronting the United States is of epic proportion.
