Report on State’s Competitiveness

So Mr. Ueberroth (Mr. Olympics) and a blue-ribbon panel of businessmen of this state recommend that parents be allowed choice as to their children’s school (April 24). Will someone please explain to me how such a program is a business concern and how such a program will improve business profits in California?

Frankly, I question the wisdom of picking a “blue-ribbon panel” of businessmen to solve the state’s economic problems. It seems to me that businessmen, through a decade or more of greed and short-term, “bottom-line” profit-motivated activities, put us in the present hole in the first place.

It seems to have been adequately established in the last few year that what’s “good for business” isn’t necessarily good for the economy. It also seems clear that business people don’t know what’s good business. Why look to these guys for advice?

DAVID B. AMOS

Pasadena