Steve Hilton: Everything Touched By The Government In California Is A Total Disaster
Fox News contributor Steve Hilton joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to discuss his new book, Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst-Run State .
'It is the most amazing place. I live there. I love California, it's incredible. We got so much potential. But even with all this crap, we are still today, the fifth biggest economy in the world. If California was a country, it'd be the world's fifth biggest economy. Now imagine where we could be without all this. We'd be, like, totally dominant. We'd overtake India, Germany, be amazing. And that's good for the whole country. And that's really the point I want to make, is it's not just good for California if we have it succeed and stop this ridiculous nonsense. It's good for the whole country.'
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