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64. Private Sector Strategy Is the Key
Despite the antagonism between business and
academia in our country, or perhaps because of it, can
the college and university campus remain the number
one priority of those who wish to repulse the
ideological assault on private enterprise? Indeed.
The answer lies not in business cutting off its support
of academia, but in even greater support toward
certain specific ends. We must help provide answers
to the public's questions concerning our economy and
way of life. We must make private enterprise
education one of the nation's top priorities.
Business and economics students and faculty are a
great hope for providing credible free enterprise
education to other school disciplines and the
community.
It
is for this reason that the business
community chooses to ally itself more and more with
schools of business in preserving and improving a free
enterprise and incentive system which develops the
talents of all the people.
There must be candid portrayal that if free, private
enterprise has its shortcomings, it also has its virtues.
These virtues outweigh the possible benefits of
alternative systems. Capitalism wins hands down in
any comparison.
We must think and speak in terms familiar to those
people they must reach; convince the public that what
American capitalism has going for them is the best
there is. Business managers, who may have had a
good track record in the face of obstacles, must now
do more than manage -- they must also defend.
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