Steve's barking; dysfunctional government good?

In my lifetime the past two years have been the most dysfunctional government in the US. Even more dysfunctional then in the Clinton years. Now my peeps have been praising my president for lowering unemployment. Cut the budget federal budget deficit. Strong growth in GDP. Now the crazies can come out and say we don't a functional government, unemployment got lower, GDP went up, and the budget deficit got lower, justifiable. Will they? No, their crazies.

Steve's barking; what if the IRS let us elect what our taxes paid for!

What if when we paid our taxes we the tax payer could elect to say what we are paying for!
What if we could say I want my one hundred percent of my tax dollars to go to defense, or one hundred percent to go to education, because I don't like war. May be a person would chose that his or her tax dollars would be a mix of social welfare programs and health care. What if you could have twenty percent of your taxes for roads, thirty percent for education and fifty percent for defense.
Would my fellow Americans be more willing to pay their taxes?
Would we have enough money to pay for necessary things like paying congress.A necessary evil if ever there was one.
Perhaps the would be less cheating? May be we the people would have more money in our treasury?
Perhaps we would have to much money for defense and not enough for the general good?
Perhaps my fellow citizens would be so cynical that they would doubt the money they elected to go for one thing is actually going for something else?
This is one of my ideas that I know is actually going nowhere!

Steve's barking; break up the NSA

Break up the NSA.
A major corporation has been hacked ( Sony ) reportedly by a not very tech savvy country North Korea including shutting down it's computer operations for two days.
One of the top priorities of the agency is to stop  cyber attacks against the US and companies in it.
After billions was spent on the agency they didn't do one if not the primary function.
Break up the NSA.
Woe is me, and the rest of the world.

Steve's barking: what ever happened to it's good to have a devalued currency

Not to long ago watching the boob tube I heard commentators worrying about the strong dollar, and how that would hurt our (manufactures) trading. Now I hear these same commentators say holy Sh*t, Russia's in trouble, there currency collapsed.

Steve's barking; Alternate universe Sony hack by NSA

In my Alternate universe Sony was hacked by the NSA as part of their cyber war games.
One of their outsourced employees found this information took it home thinking it would be fun, showed the information to a friend, a fellow hacker, who thought it would be fun to release the hacked information, blaming the Korean government. The NSA being red faced went along with the story, even going as far as creating a fictitious movement that threatened bombing of theaters if the interview was opened in cities over Christmas. After all the NSA did want any more bad publicity.

Steve's barking; OPEC's not run by fools.

I keep hearing that there are nations in OPEC that want to cut their oil production,
They wouldn't make anymore money if there's less oil.
The biggest expense is looking for oil, starting new wells,and one has to assume that putting wells off line is a big expense.
The losses of running an oil well can't be that great compared to fracking, and sand pits.
Did the Saudis, Iranians, the Russians and Venezuela declare bankruptcy in 2008? I didn't think so?
The question should be how much money will they lose if they reduce their oil outputs compared to losing to alternative ways of extraction energy?

Steve's baking; in the matter of the Cos

I maybe looking at the Bill Cosby molestation accusations all wrong.
The discussion should be how does one protect ones self from a mentor, or helper in ones career.
How does one who is a mentor, helper protect him or herself against sexual assault charges.

Bill Cosby is the Jackie Robinson of Television and no one can take that a way from him.
Bill Cosby's comedy is wholesome and no one can take that a way from him.
Bill Cosby is a little self-righteous is true and that has made some enemies.

After so many years women are coming out of the woodwork accusing him of molestation. Because there are so many most people say it's true. My problem is that too many of the stories are the same, the accusations are reminding me of the Salem Witch trial. The women believe that the Cos actually molested them. It maybe true, may be just s mind trip, I for one don't know. The best thing that can happen is to use Cosby's trouble as a learning tool.