Bristol Palin's current crisis

News flash! For immediate review.

Bristol Palin, mother of two children by two different men, lost a court battle today. Or, recently. Or, again.

Is that political news? Yes.

Sarah Palin, failed Vice Presidential candidate, Bristol's mom, put her family in the public eye with her values approach to getting elected, a type of Republican family values campaign. Bristol signed on to that and her mom's failed reality show and Bristol signed on to another family values campaign of with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Abstinence.

Bristol also starred in her own reality show, Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp. She wrote a best selling memoir, rather old such a young person offering a memoir. It was called, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far.

It this a bigger story than Trump? Yes.

We had a number of Republicans call for a total ban on abortion even for rape and incest, and incest rape. So, in today's court ruling, if it was today, we have the Republican coda to women's health and reproduction.

Should an under legal age woman be pregnant after being raped by her biological or legal father, the father can expect to raise raise the child, perhaps to the point of forcing the woman to pay child support.

Trump may be a monster and Bristol Palin a victim but the elephant in the living room owns the ovaries of any and all fertile women.

Doctor Ben Carson faces a huge decision this morning

Ben emailed me this morning about his needs and his service to America.

Mike, you've known me a long time and have always supported me. Is it time for me to start eating more fiber in my diet?"

I replied.

Ben, we've never met. I don't know who you are other than a man full of himself. Stay away from the fiber. It's too late. If you had a good 'massive,' the world stage would miss you.

Mike

Mortgage applicants beware! Here's who you are.

Reflecting upon my short career in the mortgage industry. Here's a nasty thought.

People asking for a mortgage have no money. They have no collateral. They want a loan. They promise to use the loan to buy the collateral to secure the loan and they don't understand why the process involves so many questions ....

The Free Market Jedi or How Libertarians See Themselves

"For my ally is the Free Market. And a powerful ally it is. Greed creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and blinds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Free Market around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere! Yes, even between you and Walmart."

Yes, I heard Walmart proposed as the ultimate example of 'The Free Market!"

I saw the Jedi mind trick hand sweep and the sweltering satisfaction on the Jedi trained Free Marketeer. Only, it looked dumb and didn't work like in a movie. So how did I handle the 'three piece suit' hiding the adolescent mind? I acted like a child myself and I must say I'm good at it. Too good.

Here's the lack of debate on how a free market exists in the USA.

Not much that we're going to agree on, is there? I'll always be a free market guy.

Mike Parker, "The 'free market' is a human construct. Doesn't exist."

It does exist and has served us well. Much better than the gov't controlled economy that you guys long for.

Mike Parker, "Please review human construct. Man made. Invention. Myth. Legend. Lore. Not existing independent of man. Not natural. As 'the free market' is not natural and does not exist absent man's intervention, it is not free but dependent. Dependent upon the rules of man. And, as a dependent structure, it yields to 'he with the most power.'"

Mike Parker, "To clarify, 'the free market' does not exist except in the minds of those desiring a 'free market' with magical powers."

Still, the free market is so much better than that government controlled fifedom you so long for. Do your really want to be totally taken care of? Pathetic if you do.

Mike Parker, "There's no free market."

There's no free ride.

Mike Parker, "Walk. Just don't wobble."

Then put down the Kool-Aid. (Jedi mind trick hand sweep)

Mike Parker, "Is that it? An "I'm Yoda the Jedi Market Master" command to put down the Kool-Aid? Prove the independent existence of a free market? Then, we can talk put downs later."

The free market is all around you. (Yoda voice) Disprove it.(Or prove it but do not try.)

Mike Parker, "But, I have."

No, you haven't. How can you say that?

Mike Parker, "But, I'd rather, as you command me, put down the Kool-Aid. As in Dude, your Kool-Aid stinks."

Mike Parker, "And, it has a funny color."

Mike Parker, "And, your Wookie made it for you."

Love the insults, asshole.

Mike Parker, "You've admitted defeat again. Didn't you know? Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail?

You're really brave typing away in your Mother's basement in your underwear.

Mike Parker, "Away away away Away ..." (I was typing in a lyrical Spanish accent. Very sexy."

Want a free market example? Walmart.

Mike Parker, "Walmart? Wal-Mart's position as a brand is protected by ... the government. Not by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart even consented to the naming by asking permission."

They are also regulated to an extent by said government. Nothing wrong with that.

Mike Parker, "Government controls your 'free market? (My God, Jim, he confessed again.) There is no free market"

Mike Parker, "Only a government regulated market exists....

Mike Parker, "with taxes ...

Mike Parker, "with fees, ...

Mike Parker, "and subsidies.

Mike Parker, "To repeat, 'the free market' does not exist except in the minds of those desiring a 'free market' with magical powers."

So this is why I'm a blogger. To seek out and find, adolescent minds, to explore and define poorly used words, to blunder into places where no man should go.

Carrier closes Indianapolis factory laying off 1,400

Being a former Hoosier, the news hurt. Indiana just lost 2,100 jobs to Mexico. So I did some research. Carrier is part of United Technologies, a 'yuge' government contractor, military contractor. with next sales of $58 billion dollars. As listed online at www.utc/news, last years federal income tax liability for continuing operations was ...$2.111 billion. However, Discontinued operations yielded $2.684 billion in tax benefits.

So shutting down operations created tax credits for UTC.

The portion of the parent company, called Otis, which includes Carrier had $12 billion in sales last year and $2.338 billion in operating profit with a profit margin of 19.9%, adjusted.

So, tell me carefully, how 2,100 jobs paying $30,000 to $50,000 per year will make a difference to a $58 billion dollar a year international corporation?

Well it seems, there will be tax credits for shutting down operations. There will be expenses, tax deductable , to be paid. There will be start up costs, tax deductible.

The savings in wages over a year, if the new workers in Mexico are paid nothing, would be less than .001% of all sales. [The correct figure is ... 1/58,000 ...]But, tax benefits of the additional expenses would be 8.6% of sales.
So the workers, through their payroll taxes, are financing the move. And, so are you.

The move has nothing to do with 'taxes' as a penalty as the net taxes for UTC seem to be a negative $584 million last year.

Bottom line, the move does benefit the company because our tax codes finance the move.