Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Steve’s Barking; More signs πͺ§ the end of days is coming!
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Steve’s Barking; Will the U.S. head the way of Zimbabwe?
What the hellπΉ ? Well to put it this way Robert Mugabe saw that the whites in his country had most of the good farm land. Now this wasn’t fair after after all the whites in Zimbabwe were interlopers who took the land from the native country tribes. Sooo, he in his wisdom decided to take over the fertile farmland and give it back to the original people. Now getting on with this story Zimbabwe was self sufficient. It was so self sufficient that it was known as the bread, basket of Africa. Now getting on with this story, the new farmers didn’t do a very good job at farming, in fact they were so bad at farming they couldn’t feed the people of people of Zimbabwe. Hmmm π€ what happens when the “needs”of the people aren’t met.My interpretation is that that you get run away inflation. So there you have it in a nutshell just giving something that’s may be justifiable correct can do unbelievable harm to those who should be the beneficiaries of what should be benefiting the most………………………………………………………….
Now wtf π³ has this morality tale have anything to do with the United States πΊπΈ? Well there is talk ( or in some cases more then talk) of reparations for the descendants of African slaves. Now on the surface there is nothing wrong π with this, except that the giving of money π° for restitution for descendants of an evil πΏ that happened over 150 years ago is not a sound economic idea π‘. In fact it’s a terrible π£ idea π‘. (1) It doesn’t add any value of goods and services. ( 2) Because it doesn’t add any value to goods and service. (3) The flooding of money π° into the economy would be highly inflationary. (4) The resentment of the rest of country very possible turn the economy into a barter system or worse were the American dollar π΅ would not buy anything but bitcoin type of currency or even a foreign currency would be used.(Long live the Yuen).
***I’m one who believes that printing money π° by the Fed isn’t necessarily inflationary as long as goods and services is being produced. Giving money π° were the is no additional value or additional value in the future is a bad idea π in my simplistic opinion.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Steve’s Barking; Why doesn’t businesses pay FICA? π
This is an American story.
According to the Supreme Court, a company is a person, as if all the judges went to business school. Now, if a business is a person, they should pay FICA taxes just like every person who has a job in this country pays FICA. If a company is like a person and can have freedom of speech then they must pay their FICA tax as if they were self employed. π
I’m only partially serious, just making fun of citizens United.π€£
Friday, June 16, 2023
Steve’s Barking; Who built America?
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Steve’s Barking;Composting in New York City, the devilsπ in the details
As read by me, New York City by the end of next year will demand that separation of food stuff from the rest of the garbage. There will be separate bins for food stuff, plastic and regular garbage. These bins will be on the curbs in the street. So far s good. Now what I haven’t read is when I separate the food garbage for compost in my apartment and for those own a home do we put it n a special plastic bag or do we have a bin in our homes. If you live in an apartment will there be a special place for these food particles to be stored. And it’s especially daunting, how do we keep the vermin, the mice and the rats from being attracted to the thrown out food?
Friday, June 9, 2023
Steve’s Barking; The luck of Tesla π
Tesla the car company just caught the greatest luck πany car company could possibly have. First the government is giving it seven billionπ° dollars to open up its charging π⛽️station to all. Then oh my goodness Ford and GM is paying Tesla to open up its charging π⛽️stations to their EVS ( something I really don’t get if the government is paying Tesla to open up its charging station to all) there by allowing Tesla to under price other car companies for its electric vehicles and still make a profit. Will wonders never cease.
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Steve’s Barking; Be careful of the new silent majority !
Remember in the old days when Spiro Agnew called out to the country’s so called silent majority, those who were angry at the anti government left. Well the new, new Republican Party better be careful of the new silent majority who’s getting angry at the anti government right.
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Steve’s Barking; To bring equity to NYC schools you need inequality
Oh no, not again. Stuyvesant high school is again in equity with so few black and Latino students coming into the incoming class. Now I’m saying that we of New York City should not look at the immediate future. Stop trying to integrate greater numbers, black, and Latino students into the elite high schools next year or in the next 5 to 10 years. We have to train all the students to be able to pass the stringent entrance exams that the schools require. The way to do this is by not having all school districts in New York City get the same amount of money. We should use much of our monetary resources for tutoring those who want the tutoring. We cannot, in all likelihood tutor, every student who wants it. We can tutor on a select basis of income. How do you even that might not be equal. There might be more students or at least their parents who want their child to be tutored. Because we of New York City have a finite budget, we cannot tutor all those who are deserving of tutoring. We might just have to have a lottery for tutoring. Now part of the tutoring would be how to take entrance exams for select high schools. Hopefully, in less than five years, this would bring equality to elite schools, where the percentage of black and Latino students would equal to the percentage of the population that they represent in the city school system. The New York City school system cannot continue. It’s foolish chasing of integration of the city school system by legislation. This has been one of the biggest failures that the city school system has been doing for over 60 years. This is what is known as insanity, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
The purpose of any school system is to teach and bring out the best in the students. Now I’m not naΓ―ve enough to believe that every student is going to achieve an education that brings out the best of their ability. I do believe that in order to achieve a higher level of equity in the school system we have to treat students on an unequal footing. Giving more emphasis to those who are from a depressed household.
The Tudors would if they have student debt, the city, and possibly the federal government would help relieve that debt.