Over the last several weeks you have carried editorials and articles discussing how the U.S. should emulate Japan in everything from its education system to its techniques of management. I think you are all wrong trying to foist these ideas on the American people. If we need to follow Japan`s ideas in order to gain economic health, it need be in only three areas:
1. Let someone else provide for the cost of defense of our country
–Japan will spend 2 billion, the U.S. 300 billion in 1987.
2. Follow the technique of blocking out, with red tape, all imports that might compete with a domestic product.
3. Learn the technique for talking about a problem for years and never taking any meaningful action.
Emulate the Japanese in these three areas and our economy will thrive.
