Steve's barking at the whine and cry party

I keep hearing how our forefathers who  believed in the people.
There is a cry that says we have to get back to the constitution, and that our forefathers believed in less government. Power to the people and all that.
Now lets look at history, if they believed in the people so much how come we don't have direct voting for the president.
If they believed in the people how come the original constitution the states would pick their senators.
Those who would cry that we should get back to what our founders intended don't know history.
We may have freedom of speech, but John Adam imprisoned his critics, something that our modern presidents wouldn't dare do. They want less taxes and point to our founding fathers. I guess they don't know know of the great whiskey tax.
Thomas Jefferson another one of our founding father who the free libertarians love to quote. I love to quote the best government is the government that governs least too. It a great quote from a great writer. Unfortunately he was one of the great hypocrites that this country ever had. I'll not get into reason why, at least not in this blog. The only thing I'll say he's the liberal version of Nixon.
Thomas Jefferson Liberal? That's what we were taught in high school, and Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were Conservatives.
If ignorance is bliss how come those in the whine and cry party so angry.

Steve's barking at the dumbing down of America

How can anybody say that America s dumbing down after all more and more of the populous are graduating college.? The reason I can say that is the  overwhelming  majority of the country believe in the fantasy that the government just gets in the way and only business creates jobs. People forget that if it wasn't for government half this country wouldn't have electricity. We have to thank our socialist President Roosevelt for that. Would we have computers and the Internet if it wasn't for government? If you listen to the Monday morning quarterbacks on the boob tube the government had nothing to do with it. After all there college graduates so they must be right. We as a nation are starting to believe the fantasy. We blame the SEC for the collapse of our financial system, while not taking a harsh look at Moody's, and Standard and Poors. Enron almost destroyed the economy of California and the private industries that are there.  Speaking of Enron it seems to me the great government agency Arther Anderson certified the soundness of the company.Oh that's right it's was a private concern.
Let me state this true ism right now, the only reason for a business is to make money, not to create jobs, not to create social justice, nor to make life better.
Because of the true ism one business can harm another business or even destroy another industry ( I understand this is hard to compute, I'll explain at another time).
You know a lot of the time government even helps industry ( I know that's another concepts that's hard to understand).
Can government get in the way and hurt job growth by over regulation? As Sara Palin would say "You Betcha".  Of cause it's not the overwhelming job killer that the majority of the populous would have you believe. 

Steve's barking at what's going to become of the written word ( slightly more boring then usual)

In the near future I don't see newspapers that are made of paper.There will be no more books that are made of paper. Every thing will be done on some sort o electronic delivery system. Why may you ask? That's quite simple the cost.  It is so much cheaper to have electronic magazines, newspapers, and books. Publishers will no longer have to buy paper, they will no longer have warehouse their wares, nor will they have to deal with returns, which I understand can be a real pain and quite expensive. Perhaps because the expense to produce a magazine, books, and newspapers a whole new slew of publishers will pop up and variety will be king.
Unfortunately we will lose jobs and bookstore and magazine stands will no longer exist as we know them but I don't see anyway around it. The good authors will still be paid their high rate of advancement, even though the price of magazines, newspapers and books should go down.
What will be missing is how to entice the person who sees a story on the cover of the magazine or newspaper and buy the paper or magazine. The same is true for the person who who buys a book after reading the jacket. I'm sure that the new publishers and even the old publishers will figure a way to separate the public from it's money.
He one thing I'm surprised that e-book aren't subsidised yet. I pad's and e-book readers will probably be subsidised soon just as cell phone telephones are.

Steve's barking at Germany's full employment

I just saw on the boob tube a group of talking heads talking about full employment in Germany, stating that the reason for full employment in Germany is (let me try to get this right) they learned their lesson and are prudent not running up a deficit.
Now I'm going plainly state no one can state that as a fact. What is a fact is that producers have to a product that the consumer is want to purchase and the ability to buy. Now I'm going to state, perhaps looking like a fool that Germany's full employment is short lived, if they are counting on exports she will be court up in the world wide recession just like every other country. Of cause I can be wrong if her major export partner is China. 

Steve's Barking at the Pizza index

Today I'm yelping at a very boring topic, the inflation of the price of a slice of New York pizza compared to salaries.
I'm going to use 1972 as my standard to start with because that was the first full year that the United States full abandoned gold. I'm going to us cheese pizza as the commodity that I judge wages on because it doesn't change, the ingredients stay the same, flour, water, tomato sauce, cheese and olive oil.  If I were to use cars, televisions, or even houses there are so many variations in those products that have happen in those 38 years it would be impossible to compare wages against those products, the cheese pizza has stayed constant.
I have checked a NY times article from January 12,2002 which stated that the cost of a slice of plain cheese pizza was 35cents I have checked my local pizza parlors and the price ranges from 2 dollars to 2.50 using the 2 dollar option the job one has now would have to make 5.8 times the type of job just to stay even.
Now if one uses 2.50 ones job would have 7 times the pay to be even.
Lets say that in 1972 you had a job that payed 7,133 dollars (The mean pay per social security administration) and that job pays  39,652 in 2008 (the mean pay per social security administration).
The 2 dollar pizza means that the job now pays more by about 10%, if the norm is 2.50  then the jobs worth has dropped by  28% which I think is closer to norm.
Now this is just an exercise, it has no meaning just as most economic reasoning has none.

   

Steve's barking at our who does more for the economy?

The question of the day is who has done more is has done a better job The US government or Al-Qaeda?
The answer is quite simple, that terrorist organization. The one that wants top bring this country to it's knees.
The fact of the matter is that the United States has added over 900,000 jobs in the security Field both in the private and the public sector since the attack on 911.
What has our government done? Let me guess, they cower at the thought of government handouts.
Washington is beaming that the car industry only lost 45% of it's factory work force.
A lot of the idiots on the financial news channels that the government should do nothing and that government is the problem. They claim that we have done too much. If we have done too much why do we have such high unemployment. Oh that's right businesses is in the businesses to lose money so they will create jobs so that other businesses can make money.( If that confusing to anybody who just happens to see this blog, just skip over it in your mind).
States are losing money and so the have to lay off workers or try to give their workers less pay. Now if there was a terrorist threat money be damn, the feds would throw good money after bad a it. Employing more people then you could shake a stick at it.
So simply put if the terrorist wanted to bring down this country by economic means, there better off leaving us alone.

Steves barking at Prestigious papers

I've been reading articles from prestigious professor from very prestigious universities. There something wrong here, thawt they have been putting out papers that I would have gotten D's or even F's in high school and  Pace business school ( which in case you didn't know is now Pace Uuniversity)
I've read reports from the Manhattan institute and Cato Institute, I'm still bewildered how anybody can pay somebody for incomplete work. Even greater the media (for lack of a better work) quotes them as if they are an authority on the garbage they put out. Laziness rules.  Long live Laziness.