Desires Inchoate?

In a letter in today's New York Times, Joel Secundy – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services at the International Trade Administration – tries to justify his job as dispenser of corporate welfare.  But try as he might, he fails.

First, Dep. Asst. Sec. Secundy asserts that "many American companies, especially smaller ones, don't have the political or business contacts to break into foreign markets."  Then, amidst some huffing and puffing about the promise of the National Export Initiative, he ...