Steve's barking conservatively speaking banks don't work

If one would listen to those who call themselves conservatives, complaining about debt, they must not put their money in banks. Banks make money by borrowing money and lending the that money out, and they call it profit.
Now if government borrows money to invest in it's people so they can pay taxes, the sky is falling, so says Chicken Little.
Now I know that some would say that food stamps to keep people from going hungry isn't investing in people, nor unemployment insurance, or having citizens on the dole isn't investing in people, well how does one make these people good tax paying citizens if not by helping the less fortunate.
Now I see that the Republican candidate for president wants to increase Pell grants, then why did he pick a running mate who proposed a budget that cut Pell Grants. Another conservative who doesn't believe in banks.
Now one would have to be wary of the foxy loxies in this group.   

Now I presume that not everyone who happening to read this blog will understand what I'm making fun of.
I also know that it's hard to fathom that the US really doesn't have a 16 trillion dollar debt, after all it's on the books.Some things in life are just illusions.    

Steve's barking would you vote for Hitler if he promised you a job?

I was surfing the other day and I happen to come across on CNN this Brit fellow Morgan asking this African  
American Perry why would African Americans Vote in such overwhelming numbers for the current president when there's a such a large unemployment of African Americans under the current president. Morgan wasn't the first person to ask this question as to why the African American community is polling so overwhelming for the current president, my favorite columnist in the NY Post ask the same question in one of his columns  My answer at the time is I wouldn't buy a car from my brother ( Whom I trust) without telling me what type of car it is. Why would an unemployed person vote for a presidential ticket on how he's going to create a good paying job for me without giving me a clue as to how?
After thinking about what if I was unemployed, I wouldn't just vote for anybody, what if that person was a Hitler type ( No Mitt Romney is not anything like a Hitler, don't get me wrong). I'm just Questioning the question.

Steve's barking, yes Virginia government does create jobs

I heard the comment in the rude fest the other day from the Mitt Meister that government doesn't create jobs.  Later on in the Mitt Meister said that all cuts to the defense budget would be restored. I hate to Mitt but that's creating jobs. I do believe I heard the Mittster say we we need to create 5 million jobs to be even to the amount of jobs that was lost during the Obama Presidency. Now I kinda recall that is around the amount of jobs that were lost from state and local governments in this period, but then again government doesn't create jobs.
The teacher, the policeman, the fireman and all other civil servants don't have jobs is that what Mitt was saying. Is he saying that these people are on the dole.
Government policy of easing credit in the mortgage market creating the building boom (and crash) is government creating jobs isn't it.
Doesn't government buying computers help the bottom line of companies such as Dell and Microsoft creating jobs. The same being true for home computers and cell phones. What percent of these items being purchased are from people getting government checks. Would they have to hire as many workers if it wasn't for government issued money to civil servants, social security recipients, people who have jobs that are tied to the government. How many of these new industrial jobs  would be missing if it wasn't for the ability of these government recipients of money to be able to make these purchases.
Government creates businesses that create jobs that are unrelated to government. Just ask any worker or business owner that lost their job or business because the local military base closed down. 
Yes Virginia, government creates and keeps jobs.
Let me repeat that Virginia, government creates and helps keep jobs even those unrelated to government.


**** I'm going to write what some people may thing is outrageous,The only way one can guarantee job creating is by hiring them. Mitt's saying just the opposite.

Steve's barking at what we jokingly refer to as presidential debates?

I've been around for a lot of these so called presidential debates.
In all of them from Kennedy, Nixon on they seemed to me more like those insidious televised question and answer news programs. (Face the nation, 60 minutes , Fox and friends ect, ect). Some dufus ask an inane question that's been asked  a hundred times before ( at least the candidate hopes so he can answer the same question the way it's been rehearsed). For some unknown reason the candidate is called a cheater if he or she happens to have notes, kind of like an athlete taking performance enhancers.
This year it particularly annoying when the debate should be what role should government play in the economy. A mix of government help, free enterprise system that kept us with steady growth until the eighties or the laissez faire approach which is what the unfretted free market system is. ( notice I didn't give an opinion).
Unfortunately talking heads and rich political consultants live on fantasy island and give the voters ideas, at least different ideas.  

Steve's barking does anybody here want to be president

It's been awhile since the last debate, prior to the debate the Republicans handed the Democrats the election on a silver platter by naming Paul Ryan the Vice Presidential candidate focussing on medicare, the destruction of.
Now we come to the debate, the president is there behaving like he just had a fight with his wife, trying to remember the talking points that his handlers had told him. He forgot to listen to his challenger.
NO Mitt Romney didn't win the debate, President Obama lost it.

The president should have said that the Republican party was causing generation warfare with medicare vouchering system.
The president should have said a medicare vouchering system would if enough people took it weaken the system.
Neither side tried to inform the public that are paid from the general funds (general taxes not the taxes that are fica ( money paid into the medicare system). The President would have gotten the upper hand by stating that if the rich paid a little more in their taxes that 750 billion dollars that is being talked about being take out of  what is being taken out of medicare can be restored.
When Romney challenged the president with the joke about facts, the president showed slow wit, a snappy comeback might have been my staff got the facts from you, reading your literature and listening to your speeches. 



The US debt in 1790 was reported to be about 54 million. With a population of about 4 million.
Everyone  owed 7.4%  of the debt.
Today every citizen owns about 1.9% of the debt

* Population about 311 million
Debt about 16.5 trillion.


 

Steve's barking at an economic movie policy

It has come to my attention that the local AMC movie theater has done away with it's Tuesday senior discounts and early prior to 12 o'clock discount showings.
This being there right under the free market system I have no beef with that move,
This being the free market economy as for myself a person on a budget I want to thank AMC for saving me money, as I and my wife can no longer afford on our budget to go to the movies twice a month and spend for admission 16 to 20 dollars on snacks.
Now harkening back to my school days and being taught about fixed cost, electricity cost the same, the salary of the ticket sellers stays the same, rent stays the same the question being, will the increase in movie prices make up for the lost business from seniors and couples with children who go to the movies before 12 on the weekends?