Steve’s Barking; Cancell all executive orders

 President Trump has said that he is going to cancel all Biden’s executive orders done by auto pen. Well that’s kind of a slippery slope. (1) How are you going to prove with out a shadow of a doubt that Biden had executive orders signed by auto pen. (2) By canceling executive orders the administration is setting up a precedent that a president after Trump can cancel all Trumps executive orders by saying he was not in his right mind when he signed them or even that he was sleep deprived therefore his executive orders are null and void.

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Personally I believe that executive orders should only be in the time of emergency. Who am I too day such things?

Steve’s Barking; Why did Donald Trump scoff at his administrations greatest achievement of the twenty first century?

 Question of the day…..Why is Donald Trump scoffing at possibly one of the greatest achievements of the twenty-first century. 

 In case one is wondering what that it is that the first Trump administration did that was the greatest triumph so far in the Twenty-first Century, let me explain….There was a new and deadly virus called Covid 19. Before it used to take many years, even decades to develop a vaccine to fight, but under the presidents watch and go ahead a vaccine was developed that fought this new disease, that was unheard of. Now President Trump and his administration should be taken bows, but instead in his second administration he has hired many anti vaccination people to head the CDC, some of which even deny that the vaccination for Covid was a big mistake.

 That’s way I say that President Trump is scoffing at perhaps one if not the greatest achievement that an presidential administration can have.

Steve’s Barking: Don’t blame the current president for executive orders

 Well one of can say that President Donald Trump has over used executive orders that have been questionable and even go against the Constitution. Ah but he’s not the first as I do recall from my history books, even the great George Washington used executive orders. Now as I do recall Franklyn Roosevelt used executive orders to the extreme. Now as I do recall the the president before Trump Barack OBama was a little heavy handed on executive orders though I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that President Biden used executive orders for some pretty silly stuff. 

 Now knowing what ( I think ) I know the current administration likes to take what has done to the extreme, even to the possibility of ignoring the constitution which the presidents before him skirted the constitution.

Steve’s Barking; Genius, moron at the same time?

 How can one be a genius and a total idiot at the same time?  Well one can understand the most complex math and or scientific equations and even know how to advance math and or scientific equations and can’t comprehend the simplest relationship and possible even have a have a hard time tying his ( or her ) shoes.

 One can be a Genius in selling ones self and selling cars like Elon Musk and not know much about science and yet we call him a genius, and he is at selling cars and himself but this foolish blogger doesn’t think he knows that much the science of his electric cars (Tesla). And his talk of colonization of Mars is laughable.

 There were in the past and even present brilliant minds in scientific fields that believed in eugenics. 

Steve’s Barking: New York City population and high tax rate

 New York City has the highest tax rate in the nation counting state and local taxes, so why is NYC the most densely populated city and area in the whole US of A.

Year     Population

1940.   7,454995

1950.    7891957

1960     7781984

1970     7894862

1980     7071639

1990     7322564

2000     8008278

2010     8175133

2020     8804190

2024     8480000  *

*   Wow 400,000 drop in population in 4 years

(1) From 1940 to 1990 figures taken from Boston University

(2) From 2000 to 2024 figures taken from google AI.

** This crazy blogger Summarized that perhaps high taxes are not chasing people away from NYC. But the city Officials have to be careful because of the law, the law of Diminishing returns and if persons can make almost as good a life in other parts of the country there is a good chance of moving out.

Steve’s Barking; Is this the end of 9.99

 The end of the penny in the United States. Will this be the end of sales that the product has 99 cents at the end of it so as the consumer thinks they are getting a bargain and paying 9.99 instead of 10 dollars?

Steve’s Barking; Countries that bought the United States 🤔 ❓

Not to long ago I would here that the Japanese had bought the United States after all the United States was running a humongous trade deficit with Japan and individual people and companies are buying up major US property and companies. Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore for most of these companies and property seems to be back the ownership of Americans.

 Now not too long ago I kept hearing that the Saudi were buying up property and companies in the United States. Well, they may have some companies and a lot of property, but they don’t have that much cause most of America is owned by Americans.

 Not too long ago I kept hearing I have the Chinese buying up a lot of American farmland. No I don’t know what happened. Perhaps they still have a lot of American farmland but it seems I don’t know a lot of farmers are Americans that are selling their products to the Peoples Republic of China. What happened that the Chinese owned all this farmland?

I guess one can say the pendulum of ownership of America swings back and forth.

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Steve’s Barking; Is the United States political system becoming what the founding fathers envisioned?

 If one listens to the so called experts say the Republican Party is splitting up. It may be because of the Epstein files. It maybe because of the tariffs. It may because one believes that that Republican Party is’t conservative ( what ever that means) enough. Some are mad at the party because it has too much government interference and that is not what they signed up for. What ever the reason it appears that the Republican Party is breaking up.

 Ah but what about the Democratic Party. There are many in the party that claim the leadership doesn’t care about the people. There is also many of the party that calls the so called left wing of the party communists and communism doesn’t work.There are many who think that like some Republicans that there is too much government interference. Others in the party state that while they claim that they are not socialist they think that there isn’t enough government involvement in every day lives.

 Now depending on which so called expert one listens too, the Republican Party is breaking up, or that the Democratic Party is breaking up. Now put them both together the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both breaking up. Now wouldn’t it be great if each member of congress voted their Conscience. As I do recall from one of my history books the founding fathers didn’t Envision political parties. Ah but alas almost on day one the founding fathers of the United States went into two camps ( The Federalist and the anti Federalist) . That’s another story.

 

 Do I personally think that the two parties will break up or that there would be several major parties. Nah, the two party system is too engraved in the American way of political life, even though there have been major parties that have come and gone. Maybe there might be a little more crossing over and changing of ones party affiliation, maybe.

Steve’s Barking; The last time the U.S. pulled an amphibious assault was 1955

 The United States hasn’t pulled an amphibious assault since the Korean War. So what you may ask. Well the Pres of the United States implies that we may intervene in Venezuela because of drug trafficking ,and possibly go into Nigeria. Well the U.S. did intervene in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Didn’t the U.S. have bases near those countries and I’m pretty sure we don’t have bases near Venezuela and Nigeria so the United States would either have to parachute into these countries or go by sea. Now unless the U.S. takes over these countries 48 hrs after the troops have landed it would seem very hard ( according to me) to sustain the action because of Logistics , so the only possible way to fight in those countries is through an amphibious assault were they can replenish the troops with equipment and more troops. Ah but tge US  hasn’t had an amphibious assault since 1955. An amphibious assault not that easy, The US can easily lose several hundred troops killed or wounded and actually doing the job of protecting Christians in Nigeria and stopping drug smugglers in  Venezuela extremely difficult.l

Steve’s Barking; Question of the Day…🤔…Would an retirement investor panic if he lost 10% of his retirement investment

 Being a curious Gus, I was wondering what if a retirement investor who let say had $1,000,000 in his retirement fund and after a short period of time suddenly found that his investment retirement fund only had $900,000 would he crash out of the market? What about the retirement investor that is close to retirement would he really panic if in 6 months he had lost 10% of value in retirement investments. What would, that do to the markets?

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Investments can be in the stock market, or real estate or even crypto markets.

Would pension funds managers panic, further hurting the markets?

Would retirement income be in jeopardy.😱

Steve’s Barking ; What ever happened to soldiers of fortune

 There seems to be an idea that the President of United States wants to send troops and to Venezuela and Nigeria. In Venezuela, he’s complaining about fentanyl and in Nigeria he’s complaining about Muslim attacking Christians and he wants to send troops to protect them. I remember in the good old days a lot of times the good old USA would not send our regular forces in, but would send mercenaries or what we would call soldiers of Fortune. I’m not so sure sending forces from me US military is a good idea. Let’s get back to hiring mercenaries or soldiers of Fortune as I call them because  it might be a good idea not to get our hands dirty, and have a regular marines or soldiers get killed, named or captured. As I recall, sometimes soldiers of fortune do a better job than the regular armed forces. And even in Russia, didn’t the Wagner group do a better job than their regular forces in places like Syria and protecting their interests in Africa.

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 The president didn’t ask congress ( nor do I think he will) for military intervention as I do recall that operation Iraqi freedom Bush got permission from congress. The same is true in Afghanistan.. Ah some people just don’t like to do the right and legal thing.

Steve’s Barking; Computing back to the future

 Remember when the computer centers were humongous and used a lot of energy? Remember how the centers started to reduce in size ( or is this just my imagination) Ah then along came cloud computing and storage. Ah but it has gotten worse, with with advent of artificial ignorance ( oh I’m sorry artificial intelligence) the size of computing has gotten so big that it takes up more then a city block and uses as much energy as a small city.

Steve’s Barking; Question of the day; What is a Democratic Socialist?

 Just what is a Democratic Socialist? 

 First of all what is a socialist?

I’m pretty sure that socialist are not communists just as I’m pretty sure that conservatives aren’t Fascist..

It’s so easy to label one as some degenerate dog or what ever rock your boat to make somebody or groups of some bodies look evil or dumb.

The reason I’m asking this question is I just happen to go to a town hall meeting several years back and the speaker who was a member of the Democratic Socialist ( AOC) was interrupted by some one in the audience who shouted at her your not a true socialist and started screaming at her his grievances that made her not a socialist.

Now if I’m not mistaken in Europe there are several counties that have several political parties that claim to be Socialist and each has a slightly or not so slightly different agenda.

Let’s not forget that the Nazis we’re a nationalist socialist party that we later called fascist ( after Mussolini’s Italian party I presume)

Sooo getting back to my original question what is a Democratic Socialist?

Steve’s Barking; Bringing illegal drug manufacturing back to the US of A😆

 The President of the U.S. promised to bring manufacturing back to the United States 🇺🇸. That must include illegal drugs especially fentanyl,. 🤔. Why else would he keep demanding in trade deals that countries stop sending fentanyl to the U.S.. He’s so serious about fentanyl being produced in the States that he’s ordering the attack of small boats just off Venezuela ……………………………………………

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Steve’s Barking; 1929 vs 2025 stocks

 In 1929 stocks were held to make money mostly by individuals. In 2025 stocks are also owned by pensions, and others who are holding for retirement as well as those looking for a quick buck. That being said that doesn’t mean that the stock markets might not crash or a panic might not happen, there is still a lot of borrowing in the market but the retirement industry is like a dike. Dikes do collapse some times.

Steve’s Barking; Does number 2 amendment to the constituent really mean freedom of citizens to own guns.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

 That is the exact verbiage of the second amendment. Now the first part of the sentence states right out front the reason.for the people to bear arms is because of the military. The is something even a third grader should understand. Now every Tom, Dick and Harriet looks as the second part of the sentence and says our founding fathers said that it is the right of all citizens to bear arms ( and the country has no right to limit the ownership of weapons,. Then these Tom , Dick and Harriet’s claim ( I have no idea were they came up with this, for all the history books I read it doesn’t say this) it is to keep the government honest and it’s a way to stop the government from overstepping it’s boundaries ( what ever that means) and stop the tyranny of government. 

 Now these persons ( and this is a humongous majority in the country) don’t explain the first part of the second amendment about the well regulated militia.

 Now I do recall from my history books there was a thing called Shay’s rebellion against the common wealth of Massachusetts and that the Massachusetts militia had to break into the armory to get weapons to fight the rebellion and the reason they had to break into the armory was because they couldn’t get in touch with the authorities in time. 

 Well perhaps that’s why we have the second amendment?

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 Do those who believe that the second amendment believe that the people have the right to use the guns against the national guard because it might just be tyranny of the federal government.

I think not. They don’t believe that the government sending in the National Guard were they weren’t ask too is tyranny in all probability.