Steve 's barking taking the fifth with the IRS

I've read on the net there are many people who believe that former IRS official Lois Lerner should be jailed because she took her constitutional right of invoking the right not to answer questions because she might say something that would incriminate her.
Her lawyer told her to keep your mouth shut. (there's a possibility that you many say something that may contradict yourself, sending you to jail ( my thoughts) . Oh MS. Learner has something to hide, she took the fifth these people are saying. That being the case................................................................
What does these political groups have to hide, that they complain about the IRS is actually doing their job, trying to find out if they should be given tax exempt status with out giving out the names of their donors. What are they trying to hide. Let's send the leaders of  those groups to jail.
If MS. Learner should go to jail, so should the leaders of those groups who don't want to talk to the IRS. Fair is fair.
Political hypocrisy.

Steve's barking at not real jobs

There has been talk on the boob tube by so called experts that the poor should get better jobs to bring them out of poverty, now if those poor people could wouldn't you think they would.
Now there are plenty of people who are on  telelivision yo don't have real jobs.
Being an a*s hole is not a real job.

Steve's barking at food stamp fraud

I'm pissed off at food stamp fraud.
I'm not mad at those poor unfortunate recipients but at those lying dregs who claim that recipients are using food stamps for trips top Hawaii, or to buy bait to go fishing or some other such foolishness.
Now I go shopping in several places that accept food stamps, and for some reason the reciprients of food stamps can't use their food stamps to buy cat food, or light bulbs. The machine will not let them pay for these items with their EBT cards. If those who claim that they seen food stamps being used for anything but human edibles are obviously are liars of the first order.
If anyone see a place that dosent sell human edibles take ebt cards then you they should go to the authority and rat on this place for fraud, even if it's your favorite bait shop.
Now I've been told and have even seen food stamps being used for what can be consider by many to be junk food. I'll except criticism of the program of allowing food that have very little nutrition in them as long as their not screaming tomorrow that the government is taking away freedom of choice. If they complain about government taking away freedom of choice and complain what junk  snap (food stamps) can buy they should look in the mirror and say to themselves what a hypocrite I am.
Now their are reports that SNAP recipients buy Lobster tails and Porterhouse steaks with their food stamps. I guess those people are going to be hungry most of the rest of month or there buying high price items to sell at a discount for drugs.
The real food stamp frauds are those who tell stories about SNAP recprents to make themselves feel good about beating up on the poor.

Steve's barking Russia the new Prussia,

Russia rushes into the Ukraine the way Germany rushed into Czechoslovakia. The justification for Germany was to protect the Germans who were in Czechoslovakia just as the justification of the Russians are to protect the Russians in the Ukraine..
It seems to me that Russia was well prepared to takes the steps that it took to move into Crimea, and that she has contingency plans with the rest of the Ukraine, the Western counties look clueless.
I don't think that the Russians had planed to move into the Ukraine if Mykola Azarov was prime minister, but they had contingency plans, the West is just playing it by ear.

I'm now going to state something that will be hard for the readers to understand, economic sanctions against Russia by the West will hurt the West in the long run, economic sanctions in retaliation by Russia will bring havoc to the Russian economy. Economic war between East and West is a destabilizing event especially with the fragil world economies.

Now what can the West do to with what appears to be naked agression by the Russians?
I'm not sure, perhaps ignor Russia in places that aren't close to the Russian border.
We've ended the cold war, because we didn't want a hot one, and we make get a hot one anyway if were not carefull.

Steve's barking laissez-faire vs the free enterprise system

The free enterprise system is stymied in a laissez-faire environment.
Sorry you whom are free libertarians you do not believe in the free enterprise system.
Human nature being what it is those with the power will try to stymie competition, and because they have the power they will, just look at the late 1800's in the US. The price of oil, steel, and transportation was controlled by a few and they destroyed competition. No rules, no compation. No competition no free market.

This wasn't my idea that laissez-faire government meant no free market but several Republicans in the early 1900's.

Steve's barking statisticly speaking fat is healthier

We our the fattest in history.
We live longer then ever before.
Therefore being fat is healthier.
Taken by itself  one can say that being fat is healthier, but there are so many variables as to why we live longer today that saying by being fat is healthier can be taken with a ton of salt.

Steve's barking that modern economics may be a Ponzi scheme

Got your attention.
I was talking the other day to some one who is pretty new to the work force, and that person was complaining about why should new workers pay into social security when it would not be there for those who are young and just starting out. I told this person even the worst case scenario those starting out would receive 75% of what they were entitled too.
As I was telling this I couldn't help but recall a bunch of no nothings telling me that Social Security was nothing more then a Ponzi scheme.
Now another more appropriate name for Ponzi scheme would be pyramid scheme. Now thinking over   the stock market, that would be the perfect pyramid, new investors putting new money into stocks raising the price and wealth of previous investors, thus creating a pyramid type structure.
Now what about banks don't they take money from people with the promise to pay back with maybe a little interest, giving (lending) that money out to get interest, creating a pyramid type of deal, with the depositor on the bottom of the pyramid.
Now banks and stocks could go on for years, decades, or even centuries with out having to the investors or the depositors ever loosing a penny, but they are still party of a pyramid even though with out them there would probably be no economy.

There is nothing wrong with an economic pyramid. There is something wrong when the pyramid is based on a pack of lies, and even then it's possible to advance the economy, and not get caught.

The pyramid can and does get caught in bubbles.