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Impact - September 1999
Submitted on 9.30.1999
September 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
The Future That Doesn’t Work
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 9.8.1999
Moviegoers may recall the scene from Barry Levinson’s fine film Tin Men_, in which the feuding aluminum siding salesmen (played by Richard Dreyfus and Danny DeVito) momentarily set aside their enmity when both are hauled before the special "Home Improvement Commission," which is investigating the deceptive sales practices of people like Dreyfus and DeVito. The film is set in Baltimore in 1962, and this bureaucratic commission befuddles our lead characters because it has the power to be judge, jury, and executioner. Both Dreyfus and DeVito lose their licenses in summary proceedings. "What kind of government is this?", DeVito asks. "I think it’s the future," Dreyfus laconically replies.
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