Why the U.S. Government Should Go to Bat for Business

“The United States can't sit around in striped pants drinking pink gin,” the late Sen. Jacob Javits (R‐NY) once warned. “Washington should discard its long‐standing and misguided notion that aiding American business is somehow wrong.” Now, someone in the nation's capital is listening. Believe it or not, it is Vice President Dan Quayle.