Steve’s Barking; Are the rich 🤑 really that smart

 Are the rich 🤑 really  the smartest people? Well the Entrepreneur that extremely rich 🤑 can’t be that smart, because the true genius knows the pros and cons and spends all of his time figuring out why idea 💡 to make money will not work. Now I’m not saying the rich 🤑 entrepreneur isn’t smart, I’m just saying that  the super rich 🤑 have something else going for him or her. That got that gambling gene 🧬 . They have that self confidence gene 🧬 and in some  cases they have that conman instinct. 

 

 

Steve’s Barking; what is economics

 Economics is

 statistics

 History

 Logic

 Common sense?

 

Steve’s Barking; Down turn in American 🇺🇸 economy, so what!

 I’m going to make this brief, if a company’s are making 30 % profit 3 quarters ago and 2 quarters ago made 28% profit and this quarter made 25% profit, yea that’s a down turn if it’s the majority of of American 🇺🇸 companies. That happens. Especially after earth 🌏 shattering events like wars, plagues etc. Let the markets do its things like it’s doing now and the ship 🚢 will strengthen it self out.

Steve’s Barking;Holy Smoly the price of spaghetti 🍝

 Do you know that I used to buy Ronzoni spaghetti for just for just dollar just six months ago from my local supermarket. This past month I have to pay 💰 two dollars , and if I’m lucky ☺️ I can buy 3 boxes for 4 dollars ( buy 2 and the 3rd 1 is free).

 Soup, Campbell’s soup 🥣 I would spend less then a dollar, now it’s a dollar, fifty. 

 What’s a retiree to do?

Steve’s Barking; Russia eats it own

One of Russia’s claim that it special operations in the Ukraine was to protect ethnic Russians n the Donbas region on Ukraine then why oh why is it destroying ( totally ) the place that these ethnic Russians live. Why oh why are they killing ethnic Russian civilians in Eastern Ukraine?

Steve’s Barking; Now is the summer of our discontent (Climate Change)

 London burning 🔥 down, my fair lady. Spain and Portugal sweating  😓 it’s as* off. Texas, good old Texas, hottest  🥵 it’s ever been, New York is heading into a Tropical 🌴 heat wave 🌊.

Don’t know much about climate change except gasses CO2 traps heat after it lets the sun 🌞 through. Methane is even worse though we mortals try to burn 🔥 it off before it gets into the atmosphere. I know that the earth 🌍 every year is getting hotter and the icebergs and ice caps are melting at an alarming rate and like investments the melting seems to be compounding every year. Now I don’t know much about the science 🧪 of the warming earth 🌍 but I can venture it’s not very good . 

 I’m going to venture a guess zero carbon isn’t going to happen any time soon and even if it did, it’s probably too late ⏰ to prevent a catastrophe. But one shouldn’t worry for I don’t know 🤷 much about climate change, after all I’m not a scientist.

Steve’s Barking; Let’s colonize 🌎

 I keep hearing of those zillionaires who think 🤔 it’s a good idea to colonize Mars and the moon 🌙 . I’ve got a better idea why don’t we just colonize the earth 🌏. I know We already have people on earth in fact that’s our home planet. 

Let’s look at what it takes to colonize out of space. First of all the Moon and Mars are very hostile places.

There are no guarantees that the rockets 🚀 can carry the equipment that would be needed to make these hostile places live-able plus the robots needed to help the construction 🚧 of these colonies.

What it takes to make those places livable we can do it on earth 🌍 at a much bigger scale without all the robots needed for living on these space objects.

Now why would I say let’s colonize the earth 🤷‍♂️. Well the way things are going in 30 years or less this planet 🌍 will be almost uninhabitable, and in all likelihood we will have to figure out a new way of  surviving. My best thought 💭 if we approach survival on earth is if we were colonizing Mars or the Moon 🌙 human’s have a better chance of survival.

* surviving climate change 

Steve’s Barking; Why doesn’t the upper middle income people pay their fair share 🤷‍♂️🤔.

 In the United States we have a flat tax (?) on income in the form of a tax to pay into Social Security. Now this flat ends at $ 138,000. Puff it’s no longer a flat tax. One might even say it’s a regressive tax on the poor and the lower middle income. Now it seems to me and my uneducated mind that if we were to eliminate this cap Social Security would be secure till 2077.

*Now why would I call this program a tax. I do believe that the supreme Court said so.

* Now why am I saying that The upper middle income isn’t paying their fair share because their not, along with the upper income and supper income people.

* Now I understand that most of my country’s citizens think that Social Security is a program that only pays  old retires and  disabled, not thinking that it also helps fund the rest of the government in the form of  low interest bonds. Now my way of thinking right now these bonds are being paid off from the general funds, in other words the taxes we paid which might pay for armaments, or food stamps are being paid to our Social Security recipients..

* It appears to me there are some well meaning(?) upper middle income people who are claiming that the rich aren’t paying their fair share, while they aren’t paying their fare share of the Social Security tax.

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Steve’s Barking; Surface economics 🤷‍♂️

 WTF 😳 is Surface economics!

 Why shucks it’s something I just made up!

 It’s the explaining of complex economic issues with explanations that are simple snd seem true but aren’t.

 It’s kind of like looking at the ocean on the surface that may seem calm but there is a violent under tow.

 I liken this to the instance that there is too much money in the economy that’s bringing on inflation.

 I liken this to tax on the wealthy that hasn’t been earned ( as if we know what the real amount these wealth individuals are really worth).

 I look upon this as taking of a certain set of economic statistics and making the claim that this is the reason that something happens in the economic “without” looking at the whole picture.

Steve’s Barking; Baseball ⚾️, get new fans or make new money 💰

 I pay my cable company a lot  money 💰 to catch my local teams on the Television 📺. So what happened this year, every Friday and Sunday it’s a hit or a miss if I’m going to see my local teams on television or do I like  every other person have to pay for streaming services. Not only that there isn’t just one streaming service. Nooo there is Apple 🍎 TV, Paramont TV, Amazon Prime… I’m probably missing 1 or 2. What does Major League Baseball want? Oodels and oodels money and a pissed off 😡 fan base? That can’t be good for attracting new younger fans can it.

Steve’s Barking; What happened to my friends freedom loving Texas?

 What happened to my freedom loving Texans, that doesn’t allow women to be the judge over their own bodies.?

 What happen to my freedom loving Texans when the state demands that a free enterprise business can’t tell customers and staff that they can’t demand mask to prevent disease when your at their place of business?

 What happened to my freedom loving Texans when they stop Commerce from coming from Mexico hurting private companies?* 

 If you look under the covers Texas might behaving like a mini California , new rules and regulations.