Signs of the stressed American economy are everywhere - late-night ads encouraging you to sell your heirloom gold, admissions that neither new cars nor $100 jeans are not what people should buy, "free" 50" plasma TVs with the purchase of a doomed Chrysler product. But a telltale sign as to how difficult this economic New Deal will be to Deal with is the size of the air force base outside of Spokane. Two exit lanes are required for the presumably large week-time rush hour traffic. If the US is to pull back on the ill-advised military junkets abroad that it has become so known for, it will need to pull back on military spending. I am betting that in a time of mass layoffs, thousands of layoffs at military bases will not go over well. It's a catch-22 that echoes Eisenhower's farewell-address warning that allowing the miltary–industrial complex to rise unchallenged would result in an unchecked rise of the war industry. Well, that warning went unheeded, and here Obama is with a tricky choice a la Margaret Thatcher.
Anyhow, Wenatchee is a nice lil town and the antique mall just west of here in Cashmere is superb. Wenatchee is the apple capital of the world, or Washington, depending on who you believe, and it is also apparently the terminus of the first trans-Pacific flight from Japan to...yes, Wenatchee.
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