The larger issue facing the American political economy as enters the twenty-first century is the macro issue of functional placement and organizational management. Distinctive characteristics of the public and private sectors need to be recognized as prerequisite to developing criteria for assigning functions between the sectors. If a set of working criteria currently existed for use by the executive branch and Congress, it is highly unlikely that a hybrid such as FADA would have been created. The principal winners in the FADA situation are likely to be lawyers who will have to try to sort out the ambiguities in the courts when the litigation that will surely arise reaches them.