> I think Trump said (I don't follow him, not sure) that in today's messed-up system we would not be able to build any of our great cities. From Los Angeles and San Francisco to Boston and Manhattan. If you wanted to undertake projects of that magnitude you could not get it done in a thousand years.

Except that those cities were shitholes for a significant chunk of their lifespan.

Here's a good example of that era:

Pittsburgh circa 1940: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/historic-pittsburgh...

Look familiar? Beijing circa 2013 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/asia/gallery/beijing-smog/inde...

This is what you get without regulations.

Maybe we have too many regulations, but too few is just as bad, if not worse.