Steve’s Barking; Is it human nature to hate and abuse other ethnic and religious groups?

  There seems to be much anti-Semitism going around. This is something that has been going around since Roman times and before. My understanding is the abuse of even the extermination of Jews.

 We tend to forget the abuse of blacks, including lynchings in the United States and even in Africa.

 We tend to forget how the Kurds are treated even today.

 What about the attempted genocide of the Armenians?

 The hatred of the Catholic Irish and holding them down.

 The hard times that many of Italian descent had in the United States.

 The Scots in Great Britain.

 The various non-ethnic Chinese in the Chinese empires that faced discrimination.

 What about the Japanese during World War II of other Asians?

  What about various Muslim sects looking down on other sects?

 My question again is: is hate and abuse part of human nature?

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Steve’s Barking; Minimum wage , hurt or help ?

 Oh my goodness, the best and the brightest might say, of course, the minimum helps the poor. Everyone knows that the poor need more money to help buy groceries and housing. 

 Ah, but what if the rise of the minimum wage brings about the rise of prices because the employer needs to cover the new cost of doing business, or if the cost becomes too high, the employer goes out of business? In that case, raising the maximum wage isn’t a very good idea for that employee.

 In another scenario, what happens if those making the new minimum wage are already getting it? Wouldn’t the goods and services become higher because of supply and demand?

 In my unlearned opinion, we do need a minimum wage, but we must be very careful with it.

Steve’s Barking; Mid East, water- no where to be found (except Israel)

 One might ask oneself, “Hey, how come almost all the countries to my knowledge have an acute water shortage except Israel?”

 Well, Israel had a water shortage also, but they let their scientists have their way, and they learned to desalt the sea. 

 Of course, the Muslim countries in that region could do the same thing. If they don’t want to give Israelis anything, they could always steal the formula for desalination. Of course, the prejudices of the Muslims in that region prevent the betterment of their people.

Steve’s Barking; America is 250, How much longer?

  The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary even though it wasn’t a country until 1787 (the Constitution of the U.S. was written). 

 One can make the argument that the U.S. wasn’t a country until April 30th, 1789 ( George Washington took the oath of office as president).

 Anyhow, getting back to what my question is, how much longer will the U.S. be a nation?

 Will it be a nation until the end of time (climate change killing us all.  Asteroids colliding with earth.. Total war killing us all)?

 Will there be a civil war like no other, splitting the country up? 

 Will other countries so distrust the U.S. that we would not be vibrant anymore?

Steve’s Barking; Democratic Party…..Youth be served

  In the Democratic Primaries, it appears that we old dogs aren’t coming out to vote. We are the problematic voters who vote on foolish things, such as inflation and whether our Social Security will be reduced.  Now it appears to my insane brain that the youth  appear to be extremely idealistic, not very pragmatic, and vote on their ideals.

 I question whether the idealistic youth’s idealism nullifies the pragmatic voter in the general elections or whether the Republican attack on idealism wins.

 Are these young Democratic voters from middle and upper middle-income families and the poor not voters like us older Democratic voters?

Steve’s Barking Question of the day no taxes or no water

 It seems to me the stupid blogger that there are more people running to no-tax states like Texas, and these states are running out of water.

 It seems to me this stupid blogger that people are running away from states that have more than enough water like New York but are taxing their people to death.

 Is our choice death by lack of money or the death of lack of drinkable water?

Steve’s barking; Will we all starve to death

 Crazy me following YouTube so-called doctors, talking about what not to eat. The problem is it depends on the doctor. Each of these men and women  claims that they and their colleagues are telling us non-medical personnel that pasta is bad for you. It shortens your lifespan, shortens your memory. You have to be careful of what kind of fruit you eat. This one contains too much sugar, that one messes with your kidneys or your heart. Red meat shortens your lifespan.(Some people say it lengthens your lifespan. Go figure.) Several doctors(?) on the internet say don’t eat bread.(Some say white, some say whole wheat, others say rye, while others say don’t eat bread at all.)

 Ah, but it’s safe to eat fish as long as it isn’t farmed-raised, because who knows what the farmers feed their fish? Oh, you shouldn’t eat shellfish because they live in the bottom of the sea, where all the garbage goes. So it must be safe to eat fish with scales that swim freely, except they eat plastic that is thrown into the sea and that will poison your brain.

 Well, it seems that at least we can eat vegetables. Oh, wait a minute, don’t farmers put pesticides on them? Surely that will poison you. What about those who claim they don’t put pesticides on their vegetables? Can  you really trust big industrial farms? And who in the world can afford vegetables from local farmers who don’t use pesticides?

 In conclusion, according to YouTube doctors, you can’t eat anything, therefore you have to starve to death.