On Friday's “Real Time” broadcast on HBO New York Times Columnist Ezra Klein said California has learned nothing from its failures on the high-speed rail, and Democrats have treated the issue of effective governance as “not a real issue.”
Klein said Democrats are “driving people out to govern because the cost of living is too high for regulatory reasons, and ousting working-class families. Rail, that's a major disaster.
After talking more about the issue of California's high-speed rail, he added: “And in addition to what bothers me about it, we didn't get the fast rails, did they not change it? Okay, huge failure, we learn something. The problem is right. And you can see it in the results.”
host Bill Maher then said:[W]e needs California to do what he is doing to the government in a sane way. If you have 400,000 regulations and you can't build a high-speed rail that started in 2008, then someone has to come here. ”
Klein replied, “In a sane way, yes.”
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