American Enterprise: Government

Actor William Shatner portrays a middle management government employee who discusses how the Government has contributed to America's economic growth as employer, borrower, and consumer. Raises the need for greater responsiveness to individual and national needs.

Large room full of mainframe computers, Shatner walking down aisle of data, montage of American cities and businesses; town meetings for business planning. Montage of building sites, steel workers, scrap metal yard, shots of historical stills, US Mint, making of American dollar bills, New York Stock Exchange, more historical shots and stills, shots of freeways, village of hatch, shots of landscapes and crops of a rundown Middle America town, reenactment of American Revolution soldiers in forest, shots of American military planes and weapons, mail/postal service, ending shots of William Shatner talking.