Steve’s Barking;Agnostic politically

I’m an agnostic in my political views.
Meaning I don’t believe in there’s such a thing as conservative, librarian, liberal, or progressive.
I going to give a little test of President’s administrations in my time.
Which President’s administration did this.
(1) Segregated the civil service and bombed African Americans in Norman Oklahoma?
(2) integrated the Arm forces and the civil service?
(3)  wanted a negative income tax and  initiated  affirmative action?
(4) ended ADC as we knew it, and made the criminal justice system into a mess?

My being taught that conservatives in the beginning of this country wanted higher taxes and a strong centralized government.
I was taught that conservatives prior to WW2 didn’t believe in a large military.
Conservatives used to be large believers in law and order, so what happened.
Conservatives in my youth believed in personal responsibility, so why are they whining about everything.
 Liberals on the other hand (too make it  brief ) want to help the down trodden until it effects them, then they act like conservatives.

At one time I called myself a progressive, after all I collect Social Security, worked in government.
collect Medicare, my apartment was subsidized by the government and I went to college on the GI bill.  What changed me?  Understanding that you can have progressive ideas and not be a true progressive because there’s no such thing.

Answers to the questions;
(1) Woodrow Wilson (so called progressive)
(2) Harry Truman ( ran against progressive Henry Wallace)
(3)Richard Nixon (conservative)
(4)Bill Clinton (liberal?)

Steve’s Barking; All the Justices of the Supreme Court should resign

All the Justices of the Supreme Court should resign.
The Supreme Court on this day 6/24/2019 rejected challenges of the administration in steel tariffs.
Now as I read the constitution article 1 section 8 The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect
Duties and Impost.
Now nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the President has that right to  levi taxes .
According to Marian Webster dictionary tariffs are a form of taxes.
Now I know that Congress in the 60s gave the right to  levy tariffs on imports for national security concerns. It was wrong then to abdicate it’s job and it’s wrong now.
Now even if you stretch the constitution meaning and I mean really stretch that the President has the right to protect this country, he has the duty to prove to the American people that imposing a tariffs protects the country from danger making this a national security  matter.

Steve’s Barking;Donald Trump and double jeopardy

If Iwere to advise the President of the United States I would advise him to  encourage have him to seek impeachment. That may seem like a crazy idea but I doubt he would be convicted in the Senate, and any of those crimes that he is tried on he could claim double jeopardy and not be tried in civilian court when he  leaves office ( I would guess).

Steve’s Barking; Buying stocks into a recession

Today the stock market shot up.
The pundits gave the reason week job numbers and therefore the FED will lower interest rates. Translation the FED thinks that a recession is around the corner, let’s stave it off.
So buying stocks right now is a way of gambling no recession and the economy will get stronger.

Steve’s Barking;China is stealing our technology. Are we Americans sure.

As of 5/18/2019 we are in a trade war with China! 

We have hurt our farmers, and we’re are going to hurt our consumers because we want to produce products that we have no workers for. Now that would be crazy enough but we’re also hurting ourselves because we’ve been told that the Chinese our stealing our technology and what’s not being stolen outright is being given to them in order to do business with over 1.5 billion customers.

Outside of the government I haven’t heard any company complain. So which companies have been struck by a those dastardly Chinese? Is this some sort of racist rant? Are is the Chinese government really stealing and forcing Americans companies to hand over our secrets or is that just another ignorant rant.

Now the last I heard our our companies are free to produce and to sell anywhere in China. If they are afraid of turning over there technology don’t do business in China. Why are those mysterious companies making goods in China if they are stealing it?

Probably the biggest threat to our technology  is industrial spying, and if a Chinese company steals technology so be it, as American companies steal technology all the time.

Now as I recall from my history books we (the United States) stole industrial secrets from Britain at the end of the 18th century. Maybe their taking after us.

Steve’s Barking; Why does Allen Greenspan hate Social Security

I don’t really know if the man  I use to think was an extremely smart economist turned into a fool when it comes to entitlements, especially Social Security.
 Now I’m going to try to state what he claimed, that entitlements hurt investment in the private sector by taking money out of the system. Now I’m sure that’s not exactly what he said, it was more like entitlements are a burden on the economy.
 Now thinking that Social Security and Medicare are burdens then Mr Greenspan is a fool.
 First of all Social Security provides in the majority of cases  discretionary income, without which a consumer economy like the United States will feel the pinch and it doesn’t matter how much investment is made in an industry. Those  who make the investments are just throwing money out the window. One must have the ability to purchase a  product no matter who good or desirable that product is.

 We do have problems with Social Security that could easily be solved by just ending the cap.
 The first problem is probably the last problem, that in the near future the Social Security trust fund will run out of cash and there will not be enough money to pay what was promised. We will probably be paying close to 70% (I know that the Social Security actuarial team says 79%, but I’m thinking  recession and robots taking jobs).
 The immediate problem that no one talks about were is the money coming from to pay the bill. We will have to borrow money on the open market or have the Federal Reserve buy up the the Social Security bonds (printing money).
 Currently Social Security is giving a hedge  against how much money has to be borrowed on the open market. That hedge will soon be eliminated altogether. Twenty years ago the hedge was greater and what we borrowed was quite less then now.
 Looking at the  myriads of problems that we have with money from Social Security the best way to handle the problem is quite simply as I stated before, no cap, no donut hole.
 Those who claim that it’s unfair that those paying more then their fair share because they are actually    
get almost as much benefit because the value of the assets that they own will be greater, believe or not.

Steve’s Barking;What’s wrong with being on the phone at diner

Why do people complain or at least make funny of me and my wife just because were on our cell phone at  the diner.
Like in the old days we all would talk to one another at diner. No one of us would be watching the news during diner after work? Tell me another story.
What’s wrong with my wife playing her games or keeping up with her latest family gossip? At least she’s not screaming at me, telling me what a lousy person I am.
What’s wrong with me keeping up with my teams, and my stocks. At least I’m not calling her names.
You see the cell phone has brought  serenity to my house hold during diner time, even when we are dining out. So all you complainers bug off.