Steve's Barking what Greek Bailout?

Just read that the Greek Parliament agreed to lay off government workers for a bailout.
A bailout of what, and for whom?
Giving money to destroy lives sound more like a colonization then a bailout.   

Steve's Barking at what I learned on how to protect Social Security from the last five years

Social Security as we know it is in deep trouble!
I know that the trust funds is solid till the year 2033. That is unless the know nothing's get a bigger voice at the table. The know nothing's being those Chicken Little's  who keep screaming the Social Security trust fund has no money in it and that it's bankrupt. I'm not going to get into the argument that this is totally wrong and if the government can't the special Social Security bonds off then it shouldn't pay any bonds off. If those know nothing's keep talking that there is no money to pay off too the bonds enough times and there given credence then as sure as President Obama is president then people will start to think that they will not get there Social Security checks.
The American public should make the choice as to have Social Security pay only 75 percent of what's
was promised to as a payout at retirement when they started working or end the cap of wages that are taxed for Social Security.
How can the American people make that choice? Through e-mails, letter writing to their congress persons telling them that they want either the vanilla choice reduction of payouts to 75 percent or the chocolate choice of ending the cap on tax of worked income and there by getting a hundred percent of the promise.
The American People should have many choices too fix Social Security as long as it's chocolate or vanilla.

Why should we shouldn't put off this decision, thing sequester.
Why only two ideas. Too many ideas nothing gets done and if is done it generally the stupidest one.
Think Obama Care or as I like to call it camel care.(A camel is a house drawn up by committee).
Giving too many ideas only helps those who want to confuse the issue.

Steve's barking that the rain in Spain falls mainly on the innocent

There is an old expression that  when things are going badly it's raining.
Well things are going badly in Spain. Over one quarter of the population isn't work or as the economic term they are unemployed.
Now what is the Spanish government to do? The people of Spain didn't cause their unemployment.
A down turn in the economy did. Now the Europeon doctors want to use leaches to cure the disease of  unemployment. It is believed by the economic doctors in their ivory towers that by bleeding their patients and making them weaker the disease of unemployment will be cured.
Will the government of Spain continue to take quacks doctors advice or will they try to find their own
way.
Will the government of Spain abandoned the Euro? Will Spain become the next Argintina? Will the Northern Europe try to save their investments. Will Spain turn into a fourth  world country(what ever that means )?
Stay tuned to as the Spanish drown with misfortune.

Steve's barking at gold at 2000

Gold at 2000!
How did I get this number?
It's an air number.
I pulled it out of the air, and it sounded good.
When will it reach 2000?
Let me pull the date out of the air.
January 21st 2014, if it's not on the weekend.
Why so high on gold?
It's a commodity, that's best used for ornaments not like oil or wheat, so if it goes up there is no effect on the human race unless you intend to get married.
Why the rise in price of gold?
It's not because of the collapse of any money system, it's just like the stock market, people fell better if it goes up, and as it goes up it feeds on its self.
So if the price of gold reaches 2000 by the beginning of next year, remember you heard it here first. You can send money and I'll give you more tips or better yet one of those financial networks should hire me.
If gold doesn't hit 2000 don't forget I just made it up.

Steve's barking let's be pro active in looking at welfare providers

Fraud, it's fraud I'm telling you.
When I was an auditor with New Your State and Me and my fellow auditors would look at ADC programs, and things like food stamps and Medicaid we did a great service when we were proactive, we didn't catch many crooks but we didn't fool ourselves and the government leadership didn't fool itself we knew that these programs were rife with people who were gaming the system.  The presents of auditors made the providers at least appear to be honest and when they met with the auditors they would have their lawyers present. The state would at least would get back some of the monies that were stolen and ever so often people would go to jail.
The present governor and his immediate predecessor have the idea that providers of  these programs are partners. When the auditors meet with the auditors now (I understand from some of my fellow auditors) that they meet with clerks.
When I retired from working for New York State's Children and Family Services, we would only go out and audit a provider if there were several complaints against it.

One of my co-worker who became a assistant director with medicaid was asked what he would do to save money, he had several ideas, including having several patients that were going to the same office from the same area at the same time, take one medicaid  designated  car and pay for only one trip. This would have saved millions. His higher ups thought this was a great idea. When the Heath Department officials were asked for ways to save money, they came up with some lame ways.

If Willie Sutton was alive today he would be a medicaid provider, that's where the money is.

Steve's barking at the"R" word that scares him

The "R" word that scares me is reformer. (You were thinking I would write Republican. Not from someone who starts writing in the third person)
Reformers some times start out with their hearts in the right place like dare I say it, George Wallace.
After a loss or two they turn to the comfort zone of conservative politics.
Then you have reformers of type whom think that passing comfort legislation (like passing unenforceable tough gun controll legislation, or same sex marriage legislation) but weaken government making their reforms a joke.
I fear tax code reform, the reformers seem to hate everything that doesn't help their constituents directly, and want to keep in place what will keep them at their present job.
Now have my own idea for tax reform( perhaps I'm just as hypocritical as the next guy ) of taxing income as income and having dedicated taxes, that if  borrowed from that debt is treated as any other debt.
When I think of New York reformers,I think of the late great mayor Ed Koch, who legislated every reform that he could think of till he became mayor, who upon becoming mayor said holy sh-t how is the city going to pay for this legislation.

Steve's barking when freedom gets in the way of freedom?

When one is afraid to go out for fear of being mugged one doesn't have freedom.
When one has the right to own a weopon and one must have a weopon to out of fear of others having weapons one has lost his or her freedom.
When cooperations use their power to buy other corporation or are joint together to set price we have lost our freedom..
When one is limited to where they can get health care by limited resources one has only limited freedom.
When one is next to a sick person because that person is forced to work one can even say both persons have limited freedom.
When one can't leave a drug infected neighborhood because of limited resources that person doesn't have  the freedom of movement.
How much freedom does one have when one is afraid of being verbally bullied, yet the bully has the freedom to say what ever on her or his mind.

(Question, are television pundits bullies? )

Isn't it true that those who have the greater resources have the greater amount of freedom, yet our laws indicate that we all have the same freedom.