Steve's barking; When is foreign aide not foreign aide

When is foreign aide not foreign aide?

Answer: When it's a work program for the country giving it's!

Israel just got a ten year  military agreement worth 310 billion dollars paid for by the US tax payers. 

Israel can only use that money to buy United States military equipment. 

Now you can call it anything you want, I call a works program that benefits the military industrial complex.

 Food aide benefits the American Farmer.

 I'm not against foreign aide that helps both the nation that receives it, just as long as it's understood that it's a benifit to Americans.

It's funny that there are congress people who would vote down any aide to farmers, workers or big industrial companies, but would not blink a eye if you rap it around foreign aide.

Steve's barking; I'm human chum for nonprofits

I can't believe it but I'm human chum for nonprofits
I think giving to charities is great, but if you give to one it seems that every charity under the sun thinks that you have sucker written on my far head.
Those professional fundraisers sure know how behave like a bunch of sharks smelling blood in the water. I can count on you for fifty dollars right. The cancer, ex soldiers who can't get a job from the poor Indian reservation who's children haven't eaten a good meal and only eat dirt because they are refugees from the planet Mars. Oh by the way what's your credit card number. Don't forget I get a piece of the action,  a big piece of the action.

Those are only the private nonprofits. I'm also shark bait for the Democratic Party. You really don't want Donald Trump to be president do you? For only five, ten, twenty dollars a day you can stop Donald Trump from being the next president of the United States.

I've heard that the Repulican party does the same thing on their pitch is for only five, ten twenty dollars you too can stop ********* Hillary from being the next president of the United States.

I't just came to my attention that a my blog went out with nothing in it. Holly s**t.

Steve's barking; The News can't be true, it's not what I believe

The main stream media doesn't tell the truth.
How do I know, it's not what I believe.

When we read or hear news from sources that aren't aligned with our prejudices we blame the news media. If they tell us stories that our aligned with our prejudice we claim that there the truth tellers.
Did you ever hear a person who said don't trust the New York Times they are such a liberal outlet, then the next day quoting them because that liberal paper backs up that persons belief.

Then there is those wuss politicians who cry every time a news media says something they don't like.
Or even those would be politicians who claim there is bias in the way they cover them. Oh it's that main stream media that's are telling lies about me.
 Of cause there are enough people who are prejudice that they buy the whinnying.

 I'm one of those people who have his own prejudice, but I hope I have enough sense to understand the truth from the garbage, and not believe everything that I read and hear from the various media even though it just might feed my prejudice.

Steve's barking; The Monday morning president

Here in the states we have what is called a Monday morning quarterback.
This old expression came from the fact that football (the American kind) for college was played on Saturday and the professional kind was played pretty much on Sunday. It used to be the the quarterback would call the plays. We whom did not play the game would question the plays on Monday morning. We all know that we could call better plays then the quarterback.
Of cause there are plenty of people in the U.S. who believe that they can call the plays of the government better then the president. I like to call these people Monday morning presidents.
In fact we have on running for president this year.
I wonder if in Fance, England and even Russia there are Monday morning premiers.

Steve's barking; So you think you know why the stock and bond markets tanked today

Today the stock market and the bond market was steeply lower.
If you listen to the talking heads on CNBC they have you believe that the reason for this strange phenomenon is because the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates.

Yesterday the US congress voted unanimously that Saudi Arabia could be sued for 9/11.

Now I can't prove that Saudis started selling US bonds and stocks because there is no information out there of who was selling but it's as good a theory as any.
Of course when stocks start falling margins are called and panic sets in,making a bad situation even worse.

Steve's barking; Old age Armageddon

We of the west are going old.
We need more health care.
Our government old age retirement funds our underfunded. (We'll I've read on some blogs, that have been picked up by some papers).
Our healthcare systems are under stress, the government system in Europe and the crazy laissez fare of the United States.
Now in the days of yesteryear the work force would keep growing and the taxes of the workforce would more the cover the cost. Ah but the working population is shrinking compared to the retired population.
Our countries our weary of immigrants. So having more immigrants doesn't seem to be the answer. So what is the answer?
The answer to these problems from the government's of Western nations is to keep taxes low or lower.
Cut or keep the same amount of moneys going into these programs.
The problem with cutting or not paying enough into these programs is the growing part of the population will not be able to afford new products having an unforeseen negative consequences on the economies of Western Nations.
Given this scenario either raise taxes or have an economic implosion.
This isn't rocket science.

Steve's barking; checking the blood of babies with brain damage from Zeka virus

In my unscientific view maybe we should check the blood type of the children who have brain damage from the Zeka virus. If by chance they all have the same blood type and all the mothers have the same blood type we could treat those with that blood type differently then those who don't.
If we discover it doesn't matter, discovery is by trial and error.

Steve's Barking;Obama's Economic stimulas package worked

 President Obama's stimulus package worked.
Let me repeat that President Obama's stimulus packed worked.
A stimulus package should be a one time thing ( Reducing taxes doesn't seem to do that so I would call reducing taxes a bad stimulus).
President Obama's stimulus package can be compared to jump starting a cars battery.
Europe's Austerity program is like draining a cars battery.
Why do I say that the stimulus package worked?
People got money in their pockets. They needed goods and services and businesses provided them. The economy started to roll. A car generally can run for quite some time after a jump start even though it may soon need a new battery.