Local chamber of commerce representatives and members
of the development advisory council
of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership were invited to
provide perspective from our business and development community.
These will serve specific regions
of the country, and
provide vital links between companies, universities and colleges,
chambers of commerce and any other resource that can help
local businesses to become more innovative and competitive.
To counter criticism
of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber
of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views
of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools
of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage
local chambers of commerce to
provide the views
of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views
of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views
of defenders
of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses
of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.