Steve's barking at longer life or not

The mayor of New York wants every body to be physically heather so you can live longer and not be a fiscal burden.
If you work for the city you can work longer. Mentally you might be a basket case and not a very productive member of the government work force, but your lungs will be healthier, and by not drinking so much soda pop, or other sugary drinks by making them more expensive.
I'm sure the next step will be to tax sugar laced food.
Question. Doesn't this put a burden on those who can't fly off to Saint Moritz for their pleasures?

I understand that there has been a large uptick in venereal disease among senior citizens, should we lessen their pleasure by fining them for not using protection? After all it cost the health system millions if not billions to treat and could have been avoided, with a little bit of protection.

Why haven't I heard of any studies of the death rate of morbidly obese persons compared to seemingly healthy skinny people? Is this a conspiracy of those demanding pleasing aesthetics?

We are living existing longer now but are we any happier?
We have to work longer.
The majority of us are losing our saving to wise guy minority, and our little pleasures of life are being attacked and the few are making it harder and harder  for the many to have our simple pleasure.

So in conclusion, we are living less and existing more.

Steve's barking To Keynes or not to Keynes

I like to think I'm a Keynesian (Keynes?).
What do I know about Keynesian economics?
Yea I believe that when the economy in ones nation it's governments role to stimulate the economy.
I'm also one who believes that when government stimulates the economy with job creation, those jobs should pay enough for those employed have a large discretionary income s those employed would have the money to buy goods and services from the private sector or at least save or invest. The private sector would then have the incentive to invest in employees. That being the theory or what I believe the theory to be, one would be hard pressed to come up with a better theory, unless you believe in the job fairy.
I also believe that one should increase taxes in good time to pay for the borrowing that takes place in bad times.
I think that makes me a Keynesian.
Now I've seen some load mouths on the boob tube who claim they understand Keynesian economics, but for some unknown reason, I don't feel they know Jack about Keynesian theory of economics.


I've been reading that businesses are investing in employees because of uncertainty.
Life is always full of uncertainties. I just think that businesses are doing what they are suppose to be doing. Some businesses are making profits at a record breaking pace. Why should they hire new employees unless they have reasonable expectation that there profits would be even greater or if they don't their profits would diminish.


The only reason for a business is to make money, it's not to create jobs, promote social justice, or to clean the environment. Those thing are incidental to making money.

Steve's barking at the union loss in Wisconsin?

Unions took a terrible loss in Wisconsin on Tuesday. They didn't beat Walker.
They might have change the make up in the   state senate, but that don't count, even though it can stop the governor from doing what ever the f**k he wants to do.

Heard Ron Paul several weeks back about the Byzantine empire and how they lasted so without debasing their currency and having no wars. I looked it up, boy did the congressman have it wrong.

I live in a area were I can make rough estimate that at least 60% of the 15000 family are currently civil servants or retired civil servants. They support 2 large supermarkets, 3 smaller ones, several garages not counting the five gas stations, local hardware store, numerous restaurants, a JC Penny and a K Mart, not counting a new mall that is intended in the spring of 2014. Almost all of these private enterprise businesses wouldn't be there if it wasn't for government workers and their paychecks and pensions.
( The circle of economic life).

Steve's barking at asteroid colliding with earth in Dec 2013

It has just been discovered by the national SOE (save our earth) agency that an asteroid the size of Road Island will crash with earth.
Immediately  President Bradley sent word to congress that we needed to build thirteen Scans Rockets along with building of special Tesla lasers at the cost of eight hundred billion dollars.

The debate has begun in congress.
Representative Herman leading the opposition, stated today, this is a budget buster, we can't borrow anymore, think of our children's future.
Senator Lank chimed in, how can you trust this agency, after all it's run by the government and as the great President Reagan said you can't trust government. Anyway if this thing is so big how come it wasn't discovered before. It's just another way for government to spend money.
Representative Sparkle chimed in on INN (Internet News Network) that the majority of scientist don't believe that this asteroid will hit  the earth.
The Lightning Town press proclaimed that why should we spend more money when we already have rockets that can reach it and blow it to smithereens with atomic bombs . The president is asking us to spend money on an other boondoggle.
People from the presidents own party like Senator Peaches are making a suggestion that we should ask other countries to join us in research and development of a device or devices to destroy this asteroid.
It was suggested by commentator Herb on BNN (Business News Network) that other nations should have to pitch in and pay for saving the earth, after all other peoples live on earth also, and they should help fit the bill.

Will the Tesla Laser and the Scans rocket be build it time?Will the Us be bankrupt to save the rest of the earth? Will another country besides the United States save the earth? Maybe we really do have enough rocket power and explosive power to save the earth.

Will I submit the real science fiction stories to be published?
Will they be published?
Will anything I ever written be published?
Will they be liked?
What me worry?

Steve's barking at why I hate graphs

Why I hate graphs.
I used to love graphs to highlight what I believed to be the truth.
It's just that they don't really prove the truth.
Who uses graphs?
The good, the bad, and the down right evil.
The problem with graphs, one doesn't know if the statistics are true to back up the graph.
I lost my faith in graphs during the Reagan administration, If I'm not mistaken they used graphs to prove ever erroneous reason for the administrations economic policies.
It seems like everyone likes to us a graph to prove a point.Even my hero's (maybe that's the wrong word) use graphs, and I'm 95% sure that they can back up their data.
But one can't tell if the graphs are correct unless one knows if their data that the graph uses is correct.

Steve's barking, no more big gulp oh no

New York City plans to ban sugary drinks over 16 ounces from movie theaters, restaurants, and outdoor food carts.
What's a man on a date in the movies going to do? How can he share his large drink and humongous popcorn with his favorite gal? He can't give germs to his lovely without giving her a kiss.
What about the mother of four? She can't buy two large sodas to go with the franks, she has to buy four sodas.
What about the family who buys the biggest size soda brings in some small cups and they all share? Will they have to sneak in some Fanta ( I believe that's a cheep soda) to the movie theater.

Steve's barking at Facebook

On no Morgan Stanley got it wrong and peg the price of face book wrong.
Now if only I had some lose change around I would buy some shares. I looked in the usual places but my wife must have searched the couch before I did.
I was wrong I thought the value of the company for that many shares that were being sold was thirty dollars, and it's lower then that at the present time.
Me being not the brightest guy in the word predict that it will hit forty dollars by December and fifty by this time next year. Why you may ask? I'm looking at the other Buffet rule if you like something enough buy it's stock, and an a lot of people love Facebook. Besides a awful lot of financial annalist on the boob tube keep knocking saying that it's only revenue source is advertising. Good thing after over fifty years over the air TV finally got another revenue source besides advertising. I don't know how they were able to last so long.