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This morning, I signed an executive order instructing the federal government to use every available federal resource in support of that mission. That order has created an Export Promotion Cabinet, made up of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, along with our USTR, our Small Business Administrator, the Export-Import Bank President, and other senior U.S. officials whose work impacts exports. That cabinet will convene its first meeting next month.

An executive order creating a cabinet? Bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy.

The Export Promotion Cabinet shall coordinate with the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), established by Executive Order 12870 of September 30, 1993.

An executive order creating a cabinet? Bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy.

Many businesses want to export their products, but just don’t have the knowledge, experience and resources required to identify and enter new markets. As part of the National Export Initiative, President Obama has proposed increasing funding for export promotion programs by $134 million for FY2011. This funding will provide for the hiring of over 325 trade experts...

Blah, blah, blah...more spending, more bureaucracy, more corporate welfare statism. What about PAYGO? Hiring 325 more bureaucrats and we the people get to pay for them.

On and on and on...government of the special interests, by the special interests, for the special interests.

Informative, educational, disgusting. Impeach Barack Obama. Vote out all crickets-chirping congress members on this one.

Thanks for posting, Cindy.

You’re welcome PGalt.

Or letting those 325 experts work as private sector consultants, selling their expertise to any companies who deem it worthwhile?

The more I think about it, the more I assume these 325 new bureaucrats will not only be patronage hires, but put in place as the infrastructure for some further regulation, not yet copped to. That’s how these guys work.