{"id":1426851,"date":"2022-04-09T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426851"},"modified":"2022-04-09T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T14:30:29","slug":"maher-weve-been-running-up-the-debt-to-huge-levels-were-not-in-a-pandemic-anymore-and-lockdowns-were-questionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maher-weve-been-running-up-the-debt-to-huge-levels-were-not-in-a-pandemic-anymore-and-lockdowns-were-questionable\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher: We&#039;ve &#039;Been Running up the Debt&#039; to Huge Levels, We&#039;re Not in a Pandemic Anymore and Lockdowns Were Questionable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaher-weve-been-running-up-the-debt-to-huge-levels-were-not-in-a-pandemic-anymore-and-lockdowns-were-questionable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>During the \u201cOvertime\u201d segment of his \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday, Bill Maher expressed concern over massive levels of government debt, said that we\u2019re not in a pandemic anymore, and stated that it\u2019s questionable whether we should have had such a drastic response to the pandemic when there are legitimate arguments that lockdowns had no real impact.<\/p>\n<p>Maher stated, \u201cWell, we have problems we haven\u2019t had in a very long time like inflation. And certainly, we have been running up the debt, but not the levels that we have in recent years where we just sort of went, oh, numbers don\u2019t mean anything. I remember when\u2026Obama first got in and the bill to bail out the economy was like $780 billion and they were like, well, we can\u2019t go to a trillion, that would just freak people out. And now, they write it like it\u2019s the dinner check. \u2026 I don\u2019t know where that leads.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After author\u00a0Nancy MacLean said that we\u2019re in the unusual situation of being \u201cin the middle of a pandemic,\u201d Maher responded, \u201cWell, we\u2019re not in the middle of one, and it\u2019s debatable as to whether we should have lost our shit to that degree and there are also people who say lockdowns didn\u2019t really change anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the \u201cOvertime\u201d segment of his \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday, Bill Maher expressed concern over massive levels of government debt, said that we\u2019re not in a pandemic anymore, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}