The United States Chamber of Commerce has released an “open letter” to the President, Congress, and the American people which lays out its blueprint for our political future. It lays out the current Republican playbook in stark terms, and it reads like the battle plan for those alien spaceships from Independence Day: Drain the resources, take everything from the population, strip the land to a husk … and then presumably sail away in mile-long spaceships toward the next targeted planet.