Steve's barking at special electric cars

I just don't get it. Why are we investing in plug in cars when we can just as easily put money into electrical cars that can be charged by photosynthesis. You just put these solar panels on the roof of the car which charges up the batter, letting the car drive at  night with out . Now if it's cloudy all day the owner of the car can put the car in the garage turning on the lights to charge the battery. Now this would work like the panels that run  a solar power calculator only charging the battery instead of running the calculator. The owner would then save money on not buying gas or for that matter paying the electric company.  

steve's barking at bad wall street is badder?

The present Wall Street is badder then the Wall Street of 1900?
What the heck does that mean?
In the 1900's the banks didn't need no stinkin regulations after all they regulated themselves.
They did away with bucket shops, while the present day Wall Street complains that the government wants to regulate buck shops. Those are the places that sell naked derivatives, what ever the hel* those things are. They understood that risk and sometimes corruption that goes with it bad for business. The present day Wall Street-er seem to like to shrug their shoulders and like Alfred E Newman say what me worry.
The most famous of the Wall Street evil men JP as in Morgan wrote a check to save the banking system after the collapse I believe in the panic of '98 or was it '93, anyway can you see that happening in the Wall Street of today?  ( It may be the reason JP died died with millions only in double figures).
Now the Federal Reserve was started so that one person or even several individuals wouldn't have the burden nor the power to fix and or regulate the banking industry.   


* It was the panic of "07 were JP interceded with the help of the federal treasury.
It is believed that JP supported the deal to have the federal Reserve.
It was reported that old JP had a net worth of 65 Million. I've also read that it was 80 million.
Rockefeller's comment on the time of his death was and to think he wasn't even a rich man
Was JP a nice guy?, Probably not. Evil? possibly. Worse then what we have today? I don't think so.

The reason I was writing this particular blog was to show that the present day bankers can't compare to the 1900's. That the leadership was more responsible, unfortunately I didn't really prove my case. 

Steve's barking at class warfare in the US

I see in the papers that their are a number republicans who are claiming that the president is starting class warfare. These are the same people who are anti -union and don't belivein paying hard working people a living wage.
These the same people who complain about pension for the public sector are too high but if they are elected to public office there is no way they would give up or reduce theirs.
Getting back to class warfare, when some one wants to do away with collective bargaining they are taking away the right of free speech for a group of working individuals. Is the United States becoming a country that only the rich or the dumb can be heard.
The Occupy Wall Street crowd hasn't stated obvious false hoods as the so called Tea Party has.
Nobody that I know or have read about  wants to redistribute the wealth, they just what a fairer tax system.
They want those who control the money to open the club to more people. 
They don't want to hear a law and order mayor who hired one of the biggest crooks in the United States as his police commisoner to state that the president is opening up class warfare. He wouldn't know about class warfare if it bit him on his ass. 

Steve's barking at me being a 1 percent-er

I'm a 1 percent-er. No I don't make 1 million dollars a year. The fact of the matter I make $41,000 a year pension. Now it's true that more then 1% of the United States gets a pension, it just feels like it.  I'm also among another dieing bred, a retired government worker. Not being retired from being a government worker because there are plenty of us, but being a government worker is a dieing bred.
The fact of the matter government workers are on the endanger species list.

Steve's barking at Mad magazine and the republican party

The Republican party changes social security for the worse and blames the Obama administration for it.
The Republican party calls President Obama a socialist.
Were did  the Republican party get it's ideas from? Why mad magazine of cause.
I remember the cartoons but in a slightly different way.
The first cartoon was a group of Russians changing the star on a US missile to the Russian hammer and sickle.
The second was a cartoon a mother ask her son why he didn't make friends with a certain boy, Oh he's gay the boy said. But he's so bright the mother said. The she asked why he didn't make friends with this other boy. The son replied that he was gay. But he's the captain of the football team the mother replied. She then asked about another boy, and why he didn't make friends with that boy. He's gay the boy replied. How is that possible, he has so many girl friends. Why do you call him gay? The boy replied any body I'm not friends with is gay. I decide who is gay.

I know, I know that the last joke is pollitically incorrect, I believe these cartoon was in the sixties.
The jokes might be slightly different, after all my memories is not what it used to be.      

steve's barking at what I didn't know about Fanny and Freddy

I Didn't Know that Freddy Mac was really Countrywide.
I didn't know that that Citi  and Wells Fargo Banks were really Fanny Mae.
I didn't know that the ease of getting a mortgage didn't help the economy with employment.
I didn't know that half those pontificating on the boob tube about what caused the collapse of the economy have the economic IQ of a toad.

Steve's barking the free market finaly got it right

Bank of America dropped the idea of charging $5 a month for the right to use their debit card.
Citi and JP Morgan Chase decided not to charge $3 a month for the use of it's debit card.
There are enough banks that were going to charge those extra fees that those humongous banks whould not be as humongouse if they decided to keep their fees.