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Do We Have Too Much Government Regulation? Part III: Health and Safety Regulations
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Item Title Do We Have Too Much Government Regulation? Part III: Health and Safety Regulations
Guest Brown, Jerry (1938-)
Guest Estrich, Susan
Guest Sowell, Thomas (1930-)
Guest Goodman, John C.
Guest Arrow, Kenneth J. (1921-)
Guest Du Pont, Pierre S.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedOctober 02, 1995
Description

A crackling series of shows on everything from lead poisoning in our inner cities

to the use of DDT to curb malaria in Sri Lanka to the effect of a bank merger on the

banks' employees. You pays your money and you takes your choice, but all sides of the

questions are brilliantly argued. JB: "When you can allow a Chemical Bank to merge

with a Chase Manhattan and eliminate 10,000 jobs with no safety net, with nothing else

there, that is immoral..." TS: "Is it less immoral if 20,000 people lose their jobs in very

small businesses over the same period of time, as often happens?" ... JCG: "On

average, it's probably true that the [Environmental Protection Agency] is killing more

people than it's saving." ... PdP: "We spent $5.5 trillion [on welfare] since 1964, and

there are more people in poverty than when we began. The experiment has simply

failed." SE: "So what do you do with the kids?" PdP: "What you do is you start with a

different philosophy. The philosophy is that everybody works and everybody earns,

unless you're disabled." SE: "Right. So we've got a 16-year-old girl who's got a bad

philosophy and a 16-year-old boy who's got a bad philosophy, and between them they

create a 1-year-old child who needs to eat. What do you want to do now?"

Language(s)
Country of Origin
Place RecordedStanford, California, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1063
Record Number80040.1334
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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