On Friday's broadcast of HBO's “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while he's not a big fan of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointments, there is a bloated bureaucracy that “makes it difficult for people to live their lives the way they should.” There are thousands of regulations that prevent us from sending them.” Live better without doing anything. “It's like the experts left something alone for too long and now it's just sclerosis and constipation.”
Maher said: [relevant remarks begin around 34:00] “This country needs chaos. This country needs colonies and a slap in the face. This is not the person I would choose to run the colonies, but the bureaucracy is not bloated. Not that the debt is $36 trillion. It's not like there aren't thousands of regulations that prevent people from living better lives and do nothing about it. Unknown. I'm saying it doesn't exist. And I'm not going to hate anything in advance. Do I really have a good, optimistic feeling about it? No, I don't. But I'm not going to hate anything in advance. Let's see what the disruptors can do because, frankly, the experts have been letting something go for far too long. , because now it's just sclerosis and constipation.”
Maher added that he would wait to see how destructive Trump administration members would be if pressured by lobbyists and contractors, and said tariffs would worsen inflation.
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