You’re right...
Honestly, these city leaders can’t grasp any correlation
between some of these hair-brained ideas, and future
problems that might be caused by them.
It’s as if any stooge could come up with an idea, and it
would be implemented, no questions asked.
I’m reminded of the movie Bedazzled. The Devil is a woman,
and she gets this guy to wish for things.
Each one of them winds up in total disaster.
Now it’s as if she is offering deals to today’s leaders,
“Just make a wish, and I’ll take care of it.” Then the
trouble begins.
We don’t get do overs either.
You're thinking of another movie, maybe? In Bedazzled (one of the funniest movies of all time), the devil is Peter Cook. The man being tempted is Dudley Moore, who was brilliant in that. And the girl is Eleanor Bron, who just goes around being a hot babe while playing her parts in these connected sketches hilariously.