Steve’s Barking; The Luck of Trump

My President is extremely lucky.
He starts a trade war against Europe and China just when the European Union is having problems with it’s member states. Brazil has gone nationalistic which will hurt the the agricultural trade with China. Brazil would have taken the U.S. place in supplying agricultural products (It may still, along with Argentina. These stupid moves will make it easier to negotiate, but the U.S. will probably regret the trade war Trump started.

Steve’s Barking; Stop talking money when it comes to healthcare

We in America have this idea that healthcare is free, or at least we should not be paying a lot of money.
Well I just had the unpleasant task recently of going to the emergency room with a family member.
It’s was a discrace, in more then 24 hrs a bed couldn’t be found for my family member.
Patients were peeing on themselves and no one was cleaning them. There weren’t enough doctors or nurses.
The fact of the matter there is a shortage of doctors and nurses in America’s healthcare system
To get the staffing it’s going to cost money, and the fact of the matter the only way to pay for the training and the beds that are needed is from the government. The only way the government can pay is through taxes.
The United States is not the only country that is facing these crisises of healthcare, you can probably find this problem in most countries, They refuse to pay for  adequate healthcare. Every country even socialized  medicine don’t put enough money into the healthcare system and I’m sure, most if not all are collapsing for lack of money.

Steve’s Barking; It will rot your brain

The truth be told I spend so much time on social media it will rot my brain.
As my mom used to tell me that I watch so much television it was going to rot my brain.
As my father used to tell me that I was reading so many comics it’s going to rot your brain.
As a classmate used to tell me that I was spending so much time following sports it will rot my brain.
I spent so much time on these  addictive activities that my brain rotted away.

Steve’s Barking; And what about Arizona

The President of the United States said the Democrats should except the results Florida’s Governor's and Senate election. The same is true about the governor race in Georgia. Three races that the Republican candidates barely won. There was no complaints about Arizona that the Democrat barely won.
Well it’s Florida law that if a candidate gets less then 1% a recount is in order. And the winner of the senate race happens to be Governor of Florida, doesn’t he know the rules. Now this governor also is complaining about fraud in  Broward county, he should of been  aware of any fraud as he is governor.
He’s not much of a governor is he.

Steve’s Barking; International Business

In the 21st century it appears that businesses aren’t located in one country.
German companies own American companies.
American companies own Mexican companies.
And China companies own companies that one would assume are owned in Europe
and the same is true with America.
 Now it comes to the point that companies might become more important than nation states when it comes to the economy of the world (I seem to recall some s science fiction movies that predicted something like that).
Because of the possibility of companies taking over the importance of economies in the near future perhaps nation states should charge fees instead of using taxes to collect revenue.

Steve’s Barking; Tribal politics

There is no such thing anymore of conservative politics. For that matter there is no such thing as progressive politics. As a young man it was the conservatives who didn’t believe in lowering taxes, but it was the liberals-progressives who would lower the taxes to juice the economy. Prior to President Truman it was the Republicans that were bigger into civil rights then the Democrats. Wasn’t Republican Teddy Roosevelt head of the progressive movement? Didn’t Liberal Democrat President Woodrow Wilson segregate the civil service and if I’m not mistaken just about legalize lynching in the south.
The modern day conservatives/librarians vs the those modern day liberal/progressive seem to have changed places when it comes to funding the arm services prior to WWII conservatives tried to keep military spending down compared with the Roosevelt Democrats.
When one looks at the founding fathers of the United States the ones we called conservatives wanted
our taxes to be high enough to pay our bills, and a strong centralized government.
The liberal (Jeffersonians) wanted a looser form of government and were not that concerned with taxes.
Now getting back to were I started, those who call themselves conservatives or liberal are just part of a tribe that loosely fits into there prejudices and the other tribe or tribes also fit into their prejudices.
None look at the changing landscape of what a liberal or conservative is, if the tribe fits what they preceded to be them they call themselves liberal or conservative and they foolishly call the Democrats liberal and Republicans conservative, throwing in libertarian for not wanting to be part of the new
conservative tribe, or progressive being slightly independent of the liberal tribe.

Steve’s Barking; Who’s going to pay taxes when A I takes over the world

As of today as in the past humans would pay for everything in the form of taxes. Now I know that some of you say that corporations pay taxes, but according to the highest court in America corporations are people, so people pay all taxes. Now if one listens to futurists AI will be doing all the work that was once done by us people. Now these robots don’t have to pay taxes (yea I know I called it AI) but I’m old school and therefore I can call artificial intelligence run machines robots. Any way, getting back to nothing, I’m begging all the leaders to start taxing these robots to help pay of our debts, pay for our future, and it’s future and pay the pensions, and social security and health care of those of us who aren’t useful anymore.

Steve’s Barking; Trouble at GM?

GM blew out it’s earning report for this quarter. Projections from the top of GM is that they will have another banner quarter next quarter. In the same statement from GM headquarters they are requesting early retirement from one third it’s U S work force. Are they planning to make there parts that are made out of steel and aluminum in Mexico and Canada because of the tarrifs? I was taught that if a company believed good times are coming the company would hire in anticipation and not let workers go. So what’s the story General Motors. Shifting production out of the US .Do they see bad times coming? Perhaps it’s cheaper to hire newer workers? What ever it is, it sure looks bad for American workers, in the name of cost efficiencies.

Steve’s Barking; Do not tear up that credit card

I’ve heard many financial sages saying that you should cut up your credit card .Now if one was to take that advise literally you would be a fool. If your car breaks down how would most of us get it repaired without cash on hand and no credit card. If you have cash to pay for something, why are you using the cash when if you have a credit card that gives you a rebate you would be getting a discount on that item. Of cause it’s foolish to us that credit card just because you see a bargain. It’s not a bargain if you have to pay interest, it’s in fact more expensive. The point of the matter use that credit card carefully, and don’t make poor decisions with it.