Steve’s barking ; No more billionaires “NOT”

 Ah yes in the good old US of A there is a movement that says there should be no billionaires. I personally don’t care if there are billionaires or even trillionaires This is from a guy not a hundred thousand net worth,or for that matter half that. 

 Why may you ask don’t I give a rats behind that there are people who are worth billions upon billions and there are people who are living in the streets who aren’t worth two cents.

 Well I have a pension and that pension like all pensions are invested.And you all can say that there are people invested in their retirement by having a 401k and an IRA and they are invested in those stocks and real estate of those billionaires.

 Unfortunately stocks and real estate trust are pyramids and the super rich are at the top of the pyramid.

When they do well my pension and the savers for retirement are doing well and in my eyes there is nothing wrong with that and in fact it’s a good thing.

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 Now how do we help those poor unfortunate souls who don’t have two cents to there name, perhaps we tax assets of individuals who have assets not part of their retirement that over a million dollars, excluding homes, they ( the homes) are taxed enough. 

 We could even tax those millionaires and billionaires on their assets over a million dollars to help shore up Social Security.

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 Now those who say there shouldn’t be any billionaires explain that to the supper rich foreigners.

Steve’s Barking: The true cost of prescription drugs, this idiot wants to know

 What is the true cost of medication after all I just paid $3.75 for a prescription at my pharmacy or was it? I pay $175 a month for my health insurance plus Medicare which I have been paying into since the 60s. So  I reason that the cost of my prescription is more then the $3.75 that I just paid. Now between Medicare and United Health they can bargain with the drug companies to lower the price, but I’m still paying more than the $3.75.

 Now we here in the States look at the European countries and say that the same drug that I just bought would be free or perhaps 25 cents. Realty, doesn’t the European governments leave a high tax and part of that tax is to pay for health care? Well if you take into account the money that the Europeans pay in taxes and what their governments take out to pay for healthcare and part of the payment in healthcare pays for drugs, I don’t believe you can say that the drug I just got was free or a lot cheaper then the people of the United States pay.

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The cost to the Europeans is cheaper in all likelihood because of bulk buying!!!

Steve’s Barking; The Bronx is burning (1977)

 During the 1977 World Series Howard Cosell  proclaimed the Bronx is burning.🔥 

 Certain areas in the borough I currently live actually burned.  Why was that.

There are several reasons. The most prevalent reason is that the landlords couldn’t afford the mortgage and or the upkeep of the apartment buildings. Some just abandoned the property and the people who lived there started fires 🔥. The other possibility is that many of the landlords burned their own apartments down for the insurance money 💰 .

 The reason I bring this up at this present day is there is talk of a government insisting of a rent freeze. Will we again in NYC again lose our housing stock because landlords can’t afford their apartments.

Steve’s Barking; June 25 , 2015 Mayoral race in NYC Don’t count your chickens

 Despite what every Tom, Dick and Harry election experts are saying Zohran Mamdani is not the mayor of  NYC just quite yet. He didn’t quite win the Democratic primary. Let’s just say that if he didn’t get any votes other then first place another candidate can sneak in because of rank choice voting.

 Don’t forget that the general election is in November and the current mayor Adams, Andrew Cuomo are running on independent slates, and least we forget the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.

 In my time we have had three Republican mayors ( Lindsay Giuliani, and Bloomberg).

Steve’s Barking; Please U.S. no boots on the ground in the war between Iran and Israel ( the Israeli’s should say)

 I’m going to say something that those who are supporting Israel might say is heresy but Israel should plead with the U.S not to send troops to help fight the Iranians and that includes pilots in U.S aircraft. It is a war between two countries in the Middle East and to get American arm forces help would make Israel subservient to the United States in the near future. It would also in the eyes of the countries in that part of the world make them think that Israel is a vassal of the United States, thus weakening the standing that Israel may have.

 Now if Israel was to ask the United States not to send services men to help in their war with Iran it should be a feather in the cap of President Trump. * He kept America out of war as he promised. It would modify both the pro Israeli members of his party because Israel asked not to send U.S. arm forces and it would modify the other ( America first crowd ) in his party.

* I am praying for peace ( Ever lasting peace) between Iran and Israel. 

   It is my understanding from, people who know Iranians that most Iranians are not anti Jewish ( I use the term Jewish because most Arabs are semites). 

   It is also my belief that the trouble in that part of the world is those trying to prove who is the better Muslim, Sunni, Shite and the various factions of each Muslim sect. To prove that they are the better Muslim sect will try to claim that they pushed the Jew out.

 I also pray that there will be acceptance of Jew and Palestinians with no more bloodshed.

This post is a little more serious then my normal post, and I’m sorry

I guess I’m too late

Steve’s Barking; Paying for your job 🙀

 We in the United States think that we get a job to make money 💰. But there are many of us who pay 💰 good money to get a job that in the short run will pay us good money. I use myself as an example . The second job I got apI paid an agency to help me get it. I went to a trade school that I paid money for to help me get a better job . I went to a University that Uncle Sam helped pay for to get an even better paying job.Now I’m not the only one who does this. I imagine that a vast majority of my countrymen did and are doing similar things to help get a better paying job and thus the money that was payed out is well worth the reward 💲after a short period of time. But there is one group of people that are constantly payng out big bucks to get a job that doesn’t in the long and short run pay nearly what they paid out….These people call themselves Congress  persons, Senators and President.  A lot of these people call themselves conservatives. Go figure?

Steve’s Barking; America second ????🙀

 Going back to the future, there is a group that call themselves America first. They are Republicans, Now if history serves me right there were a group of Republicans just prior to WWII who called themselves America first (let’s make up a new word firsters )  These new firsters  say let’s stay out of the war in Central Europe, let’s stay out of the war in the Middle East. Now I’m not one who believes that my country should get involved in wars all over the globe, and I think it would be foolish to send even one troop to get involved in conflicts that don’t really involve us. The problem with the firsters they blame the victims. 

 The problem with the firsters is we were the ones who started NATO and our European partners feel threatened by Russia. The firsters don’t seem to think that Russia is a threat? Or do they, they just think that it’s not our problem 

 We help with the creation of Israel but so what. The firsters think that we should abandon her ( or at least many of them do).

 Now a lot of the firsters seem to think that China is a menace, that doesn’t seem very fair of them of there really against America going to war is it? But to be fair there are many firsters who would  not protect so one if they were invaded.

 Who knows what the president will do for every single day he changes his mind one second he’s a first second second he claims he will unleash the power of the United States on those countries that displease him (depending on what side of the bed he got up on). The exception is Russia.

Steve’s Barking; Deficit is it really a bad thing?

 The US is running a huge . Is it just my imagination or does it seem to be doubling every few years. Well, one of the reasons it seems to this foolish blogger is because the country needs financing that we refused  to do by raising taxes ( taxes the very unpopular thing that governments do to finance the state). We needed the money I presume to help the citizens survive during Covid. We’re running a deficit by the reduction of taxes.

 When I look at the government deficits I ask myself when a human buys a new car and finances it what kind of deficit does that person hold against that person’s income and or savings. What about buying a home that is financed, what kind of deficit is that person running ? What about the person who runs credit card debt, isn’t that a deficit.

 Personal debts in the mind of this crazy blogger seems to be on par with the national debt, and perhaps in this modern era large debt ( deficits) is a need to survive.

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 The worry of deficits should be the ability to pay.

 We also have to ask ourselves is the deficit way outpacing inflation?

 Is the deficit way outpacing interest rate rises.?

Steve’s Barking; The strange case of the Iranian Israeli conflict

 I know I really should be making any comment about the conflict that is happening between Iran and Israel.especially when I ask the question is it really just between Iran and Israel? I just don’t understand that why didn’t Iran know that Israel was going to bomb them, for crying out loud the United States told them. And just how good is Israel intelligence that it knew exactly were the head of Iran’s nuclear program was. Oh and it also knew where the top generals of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were..

 Now I pretty sure that a large percentage of Iranians hate the revolutionary guard, perhaps even top officials of the guard themselves helping the Israeli’s get their enemies and perhaps encouraging the Israeli’s to attack Iran and eliminate their (rivals) enemies. Is Iran that regressive against it own people. Was there an anger at the top nuclear scientist by some Iranians that had some power and knowledge of what was happening. Is there really a great animosity against the rulers of Iran by much of the Iranian people, which might be the root of the bombing.

 I just have this crazy thought that those who want to overthrow the present regime in Iran are using the IDF to do their job for them.

 The Israeli government may need this conflict to help them stay in power because it’s been over a year and a half that hostages were taken and a large portion are unaccounted for and that doesn’t look good for the the government.

 I kind of believe that there is a conflict of Muslims between themselves in the Middle East and in Israel among its citizens.

Steve’s Barking; The need to lower the age of Social Security 🤪

 Now this crazy blogger is suggesting that there is a need to lower the age of Social Security. Is he crazy 😜 ! All the know it all say that Social Security is running out of money. Now a lot of these know it all’s claim that one way shore up the Social Security trust fund is to raise the age of Social Security ( if you believe that I have a bridge I want  to sell you). Now me, this crazy blogger is saying that we need to lower the age to of Social Security. Why the reader may ask? Because if you believe that what a lot of those whom reported in the know say that AI is going to take much of the jobs that are being done by humans, and the fact of the matter is we need to have income to buy the products that AI is producing ( Think 🤔 of WAMO and Tesla autonomous cabs).

 Now what are us humans in the U.S. supposed to do for money to use the products that AI is producing (that includes taxi drivers).

 One of the ways this crazy 😝 blogger is suggesting is to lower the age of collecting Social Security.

 Now you may ask yourself how are we going to pay for Social Security. 🤔How about lifting the cap so that all income wage income is taxed and If that’s not enough how about taking a 1/2 of 1% on all capital gains.

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If AI is going to take over most of the jobs in the near future (;I’m only 50% thinking 🤔 this is reality) we are going have to figure out how we humans are going to buy the products and how we humans all become productive.

Steve’s Barking: The burning of the American ideal

 It looks like America has entered the phase of the destruction of democracy. You know how the Nazis took over Germany. Any how the President of these United States has ordered the California national guard to come in and quell a minor disturbance of some foreign nationals refusing to leave the country because they came into the country illegally. Now the national media (pretty much controlled by the government) is making the disturbance seem like a big deal.

 I expect that there will be a lot more disturbances as the summer gets hotter, blamed on the so called left (progressives, socialist, anarchist, or what ever). That way the central government can call Marshall law, there by ignoring the rule of law and have control by the current bureaucratic government in Washington to do what ever it wants.

 Oh the disturbances will actually be instigated by the infiltration of the so called left wing protesters by those who want total control of the government.

 How do I know this is so?

 If you listen closely to the Steve Bannon’s of the new American Order, they are telling you so.

Steve’s Barking ; ADP versus the Department of labor

 Here we go again ADP claims new jobs in May 2025 was 37,000. On the other hand the Labor Dept claims that there were 139,000 new jobs in May.

Who do you trust? That’s over 100,000 job discrepancy.

Steve’s Barking ; Poor Elon Musk

 Is it just my imagination or did Elon Musk just screw Tesla big time.

 First he pisses off his major buyers of Tesla cars by working with the Trump administration.

 The he pisses off the administration ( and there by a lot of MAGA individuals) by being against ( the big beautiful bill) tax bill. It maybe just my foolish belief but there just might be a major selloff in Tesla stock and a hard time selling Tesla cars?

Steve’s Barking; Is DEI reverse discrimination? 🤔

 In the United States, that has been discrimination against Hispanics women Black people. So the government in all wisdom has decided or had decided it might be a good idea to diversify the workforce. But what has to  be looked at is whether the government in its infinite wisdom did just the opposite and has actually discriminating against qualified people. Corporations and the government itself looks too hirer people to meet it’s quotas and in many cases hires, less qualified, and in some cases, unqualified persons just to meet quotas. One can say this hiring is reverse discrimination.

 Unfortunately, this government has created resentment among many white men who feel that they are more qualified than those who were hired. This may not be true, but it’s the perception of many white men of which they become bigots raising their ire against Hispanics women and blacks American Society. Possibly DEI has done just the opposite of what it was meant to do.

 I have got to ask myself how can we as a society hire  the most qualified person and make those who have been left out of hiring practices because of their gender or how they look equal to if not better then.

 I ask myself just how we can make more individuals qualified and make the populous believe that the most qualified person is doing the job?

 Do some women , persons of African descent and of Hispanic origin hold resentment that they are perceived as not qualified and that they only got their job because of DEI.

 Even though the Trump government is sagyng DEI is unlawful I’m still giving my opinion on it.

Steve’s Barking; Can an autistic person be smarter than someone with a high IQ?🤪

 In modern times it seems that we measure intelligence by someone’s IQ. But, and this is a big but the person with the high IQ is generally not sharp on everything, while there are a small number of autistic persons who are superb at certain subjects that they flat out understand the most complex things of this life that some of the best teachers of that subject have a hard time understanding and explaining.

 Another hard thing to understand from this blogger