Steve's barking did O win or did Mitt lose

Of cause O won and Mitt lost, I just read it in the paper and heard it on the telly.
That's not what I mean, was O strategy or Mitt's stupidity the reason for the presidential results after all the house stayed Republican by a large margin. The president bring Democrats with him seems marginal.
This being said if I was a Republican, especially in a leadership position I would put earplugs in  my ears.

I would not have a one size fits all Latino strategy. I would treat Cuban Americans differently then Mexican Americans, Dominican Americans, and PR Americans. I defiantly would make sure that my candidate did not make fun of one of these ethnic groups. (If I was born a Mexican I would be president, so said Romney)
Now that I've gotten ahead of myself, my prejudice being notes that these Latino groups have problems with each other ( just like the Irish had problems with the English).
 The Democrats in this election used women social issues just like the Republicans used social issues in the past. My advice to the would be to the Republicans measure your words.* Example: If my wife or my daughter was raped and had become pregnant by this rape, it would be the most agonizing thing for me but my family would not be murders, I'm sure my wife, daughter would agree that they would carry out to term even if we I had to put said child I for adoption.  We are not murderers You can't turn your back on your base.
 When running for office measure your words, even at fund raisers Example if Mitt Romney had said I know that 47% will not vote for me because there jealous of success, this wouldn't have been used against him and he would have put his point across to his donors.

Now lets get to the party of me and my family.
O's people had a great strategy as pouring money and  resources into close states that could have gone either way. It helped that Romney didn't explain himself very well, and pissed off some major corporations.
I'm thinking Kraft and Chrysler.

Now I'm thinking about the Democratic party. Everybody who is getting and has gotten food stamps should be voting and voting democratic. How come they don't do well in Kentucky.
How come they can't bring older voters to vote against Republican congress people by showing generation warfare in Medicare that was written into the house budget. Ending Medicare as we know it.
I understand that there is the end of major subsidies that Republican districts get in the budget, these weren't addressed by the Democrats to my understanding.

Why didn't the president attack congress the Harry Truman did?

What I like about the president is some of the bold moves he did make.
During the 2008 campaign and Hilary and John using conventional wisdom stated that we should not collect gas tax because of the high price of oil, candidate Obama said we shouldn't suspend them this didn't hurt him in the slightest, if I'm not mistaken his electability went up.  
When as president he did away with don't ask don't tell allowing homosexuals to serve openly  tell and openly stated that he had no objection to same sex marriage the conventional wisdom was he was committing political suicide because two of his key constitutions were against it. What really happened was the floodgates were opened up and money came pouring in. The Republicans didn't try to take advantage of the dislike of these key constitutions and they voted over overwhelmingly for the president. 
 
.* To write like that show how challis  I am some times.
In no way everything written in this particular blog is true to my soul.  



   

Steve's barking lets save our children by killing them

In the US of A I keep hearing from people who should know better, stating we have got to reduce our nation's debt as to keep the burden from our children and our children's children.
These same know it alls, do not say how the current debt would be paid for. The way we've paid for our debt in the pass was to have higher taxes. Of cause these should know better people scream at the top of their lungs no new taxes or better yet taxes that are revenue neutral. We'll pay off the debt by not having any more federal programs.
What is the percentage of jobs in this country that is tied directly to the federal government, 10, 20, 30 percent?
How many extra workers does Kraft employ because of food stamps?
How many job airline jobs are there because of the post office?
How many civilians that are employed by private contractors at military bases?
How many civilian contractors and jobs that go with them are part of grants that the federal government gave to the states?
What about those made their money from government programs and indirectly and buy products that help create jobs?
Do you think that without the federal government that more jobs will be created by the private sector?
Are you drunk?
No my dear readers, while trying to protect the children of the United States, those wishful thinkers will doom their children and their children's children to absolute poverty.  
 

Steve's barking conservatively speaking banks don't work

If one would listen to those who call themselves conservatives, complaining about debt, they must not put their money in banks. Banks make money by borrowing money and lending the that money out, and they call it profit.
Now if government borrows money to invest in it's people so they can pay taxes, the sky is falling, so says Chicken Little.
Now I know that some would say that food stamps to keep people from going hungry isn't investing in people, nor unemployment insurance, or having citizens on the dole isn't investing in people, well how does one make these people good tax paying citizens if not by helping the less fortunate.
Now I see that the Republican candidate for president wants to increase Pell grants, then why did he pick a running mate who proposed a budget that cut Pell Grants. Another conservative who doesn't believe in banks.
Now one would have to be wary of the foxy loxies in this group.   

Now I presume that not everyone who happening to read this blog will understand what I'm making fun of.
I also know that it's hard to fathom that the US really doesn't have a 16 trillion dollar debt, after all it's on the books.Some things in life are just illusions.    

Steve's barking would you vote for Hitler if he promised you a job?

I was surfing the other day and I happen to come across on CNN this Brit fellow Morgan asking this African  
American Perry why would African Americans Vote in such overwhelming numbers for the current president when there's a such a large unemployment of African Americans under the current president. Morgan wasn't the first person to ask this question as to why the African American community is polling so overwhelming for the current president, my favorite columnist in the NY Post ask the same question in one of his columns  My answer at the time is I wouldn't buy a car from my brother ( Whom I trust) without telling me what type of car it is. Why would an unemployed person vote for a presidential ticket on how he's going to create a good paying job for me without giving me a clue as to how?
After thinking about what if I was unemployed, I wouldn't just vote for anybody, what if that person was a Hitler type ( No Mitt Romney is not anything like a Hitler, don't get me wrong). I'm just Questioning the question.

Steve's barking, yes Virginia government does create jobs

I heard the comment in the rude fest the other day from the Mitt Meister that government doesn't create jobs.  Later on in the Mitt Meister said that all cuts to the defense budget would be restored. I hate to Mitt but that's creating jobs. I do believe I heard the Mittster say we we need to create 5 million jobs to be even to the amount of jobs that was lost during the Obama Presidency. Now I kinda recall that is around the amount of jobs that were lost from state and local governments in this period, but then again government doesn't create jobs.
The teacher, the policeman, the fireman and all other civil servants don't have jobs is that what Mitt was saying. Is he saying that these people are on the dole.
Government policy of easing credit in the mortgage market creating the building boom (and crash) is government creating jobs isn't it.
Doesn't government buying computers help the bottom line of companies such as Dell and Microsoft creating jobs. The same being true for home computers and cell phones. What percent of these items being purchased are from people getting government checks. Would they have to hire as many workers if it wasn't for government issued money to civil servants, social security recipients, people who have jobs that are tied to the government. How many of these new industrial jobs  would be missing if it wasn't for the ability of these government recipients of money to be able to make these purchases.
Government creates businesses that create jobs that are unrelated to government. Just ask any worker or business owner that lost their job or business because the local military base closed down. 
Yes Virginia, government creates and keeps jobs.
Let me repeat that Virginia, government creates and helps keep jobs even those unrelated to government.


**** I'm going to write what some people may thing is outrageous,The only way one can guarantee job creating is by hiring them. Mitt's saying just the opposite.

Steve's barking at what we jokingly refer to as presidential debates?

I've been around for a lot of these so called presidential debates.
In all of them from Kennedy, Nixon on they seemed to me more like those insidious televised question and answer news programs. (Face the nation, 60 minutes , Fox and friends ect, ect). Some dufus ask an inane question that's been asked  a hundred times before ( at least the candidate hopes so he can answer the same question the way it's been rehearsed). For some unknown reason the candidate is called a cheater if he or she happens to have notes, kind of like an athlete taking performance enhancers.
This year it particularly annoying when the debate should be what role should government play in the economy. A mix of government help, free enterprise system that kept us with steady growth until the eighties or the laissez faire approach which is what the unfretted free market system is. ( notice I didn't give an opinion).
Unfortunately talking heads and rich political consultants live on fantasy island and give the voters ideas, at least different ideas.  

Steve's barking does anybody here want to be president

It's been awhile since the last debate, prior to the debate the Republicans handed the Democrats the election on a silver platter by naming Paul Ryan the Vice Presidential candidate focussing on medicare, the destruction of.
Now we come to the debate, the president is there behaving like he just had a fight with his wife, trying to remember the talking points that his handlers had told him. He forgot to listen to his challenger.
NO Mitt Romney didn't win the debate, President Obama lost it.

The president should have said that the Republican party was causing generation warfare with medicare vouchering system.
The president should have said a medicare vouchering system would if enough people took it weaken the system.
Neither side tried to inform the public that are paid from the general funds (general taxes not the taxes that are fica ( money paid into the medicare system). The President would have gotten the upper hand by stating that if the rich paid a little more in their taxes that 750 billion dollars that is being talked about being take out of  what is being taken out of medicare can be restored.
When Romney challenged the president with the joke about facts, the president showed slow wit, a snappy comeback might have been my staff got the facts from you, reading your literature and listening to your speeches. 



The US debt in 1790 was reported to be about 54 million. With a population of about 4 million.
Everyone  owed 7.4%  of the debt.
Today every citizen owns about 1.9% of the debt

* Population about 311 million
Debt about 16.5 trillion.