Polosi standing firm on Columbian FTA

President Bush held a press conference with the Heads of states from Mexico and Canada today in New Orleans, LA.  The three leaders were meeting to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement,(NAFTA). 

There were no bold new agreements announced and President Bush continued placing the spotlight on Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi.    On the pending Colombian Trade Agreement, Mr. Bush singled out Pelosi, saying if she doesn’t schedule a vote on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement, she will have killed it.

I hope she will stand firm against the Lame Duck President’s pressure to schedule a vote on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement.  The members of the House will need to stand firm with Polosi in her decision to postpone the matter until after we elect a new President.

“She’s going to have to explain why the voices of false populism have been strengthened,” Mr. Bush said, referring to leftist Latin American leaders like Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.

Layoffs in U.S. manufacturing and the current economic slowdown have made NAFTA and other free-trade deals the subject of intense criticism in the Democratic-led Congress. Both Obama and Clinton want to renegotiate it to add labor and environmental protections.

“I’m concerned about protectionism in America. It is not in our interest to become a projectionist nation,” Mr. Bush said.

President Bush reiterated how the economies of Canada and Mexico have grown, and pointed out the prosperity on the Mexican border.  Here Bush is simply Window dressing and putting lipstick on a pig.

Until the poor are fed, housed, with adequate health care and educational opportunities then there has been no benefits of NAFTA. 

 What are the metrics and methods used to determine how many and how few of those at the bottom verses those at the very top our benefiting?  It may be helping the people of Mexico, but to little to stim the flow of Mexican citizens illegally entering the U.S. 

Bush said, after meeting with Harper and Calderone separately”This Summit Comes at an Opportune Time to reaffirm the benefits of the trading arrangements between our three nations”

in my opinion,

Free Trade Agreements equal Americans Manufacturing Jobs heading to Mexico where lower hourly wages are sought.  At the same time rewarding those corporations that outsourcing American jobs with Corporate Tax cuts from the U.S. Treasury.    Give the people of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania a brake.

Free Trade Agreements equals Americans buying the products now made in Mexico that we use to make here. 

Free Trade Agreements equals products we use to make in America can now be dumped into our markets from Mexico and soon Columbia tariff free. 

A good Free Trade Agreement Would be one that puts the welfare of American Businesses and workers first.  We should not suffer for the North American Union to flourish for the benefit of the elites of Canada, Mexico and the USA.  I don’t think looking out for Americans best interest first is asking for to much.

Oprah Discovers Freedom Is Not Free

News reports of late indicate Oprah’s market shares show signs of slippage.  

Some observers attributed the decline to Oprah’s announcement on The Larry King Show in May of 2007 that she was throwing her  support behind her long time friend, Senator Barrack Obama.  Here are some facts and figures: 

January 2007,  74 percent of Americans reported favorable impressions of Oprah in a Gallop/USA Today poll. 

August 2007 CBS News Poll showed only 61 percent of Americans were favorably disposed by her. 

October 2007 Gallop/USA Today Poll, Showed a higher 66 percent favorably, but still reflected a drop.

Some  segments of Oprah’s viewers have expressed their displeasure over Oprah’s endorsement of Barack Obama.  Another man-v-the first woman.

In Oprah’s case, And from my perspective alone,  I do not believe Race is trumping Gender if you happen to view the situation in such terms.  Nor do I agree that Oprah can only entertain Us,  via Harpo productions, the Big Give or Satellite Radio and  ”O” Magazine but otherwise she should stay silent on political matters.   Stay in the shadows?  Keep her politics private? Or go with the women candidate?  So that she remains popular among them to keep the peace?  

There are numerous articles on the web and in other quarters, that suggest Oprah has become anti-christian, and now embrace some ”New Aged” religious beliefs.   I guess her critics would be happier if she were still a member of Trinity?   Trinity being the Obama’s former church in Chicago where the famous words of Rev. Wright will live on in infamy.  “Naw,Naw,Naw, I will leave it there.

The bottom line here is: ”Oprah is not just a Black Women,”  like she told a crowd in South Carolina, as she campaigned for Barrack Obama, She said:  “I am not Just a Black Woman,  I am a  Free Black Woman.”   Those words carried power and truth.

Telling all women they are also just as free to choose the candidate of their choice.

In our great land, of America.  We are endowed, with certain inalienable rights, which allows freedom of choice in determining our individual choices.

Therefore, I am curious to know who thought they could pressure Oprah to support Hillary Clinton if it was  not Oprah’s own decision?  I know I ask more questions than I may answer but I believe the questions are worth asking. 

Simply because Hillary Clinton happens to be the first viable woman candidate some individuals are pushing back from Oprah and company. Simply because she endorsed for the first time and her endorsement was not for the first lady.

If Maya Angelou being a black women, can support Hillary, not because Maya Angelou is a black woman, but because she is a free black woman.  A free black woman who freely supported  the woman candidate Hillary Clinton.  Who happens to be white. 

Despite the fact that many blacks would have assumed the opposite would be true.  Maya Angelou to have supported Obama and Oprah would have supported  Hillary Clinton satisfying groups like NOW and other women splinter groups.

Therefore, the backlash in terms of Oprah’s Neilsen Ratings with her American audience is symbolic of the fact that Freedom is not free.  We all must pay for all we do and say.  Another writer said it like this: “You may not get all you pay for in This World, but you Must Certainly pay for all you get.”  By  Frederick Douglas.

Make Jamiel’s Law, Law.

A new law being proposed for the city of Los Angeles,  Jamiel’s Law, is being proposed in response to another senseless slaying of a young kid named Jamiel Shaw.   A  High School Student shot and killed on the streets of Los Angeles. He was apparently steps away from his home at about dusk, when the bullets rang out, and claimed the life of this young man. 

Jamiel Shaw’s Mother was in Iraq fighting for the USA while her son died at the hands of Sanctuary City Policies that prohibit Law Enforcement from checking for citizenship. 

Sanctuary Cities across this Nation are faced with the endless  criminal alien violence.  What is more disturbing is the reality that even when Undocumented Aliens are Rounded Up and Deported, with Our Open Border such as it is.  Those same Deportees can, in some cases, reenter the USA’S Open Border  and be back on the block within a week.  So how can you fix that problem?  Until that Gaping Hole is filled.   Everything else is simply an exercise in futility. 

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr:   ”There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice, where they experience the blackness of corroding despair.” 

Let me be clear, The majority of illegal immigrants are honorable men and women.  We are not talking about the illegal population who are not involved in lawlessness. 

Jamiels Law would deny “sanctuary city”     protection to gang members.
Jamiels Law would require city officials to enforce immigration laws
against gang members, without eliminating “Sanctuary City” protection
for any other group of people.

It’s become clear that if the residents of Los Angeles don’t struggle to address the issue of criminal illegal aliens, nobody else will.  Not the politicians, not the Corporations, or City, State and/or Federal Governments. 

Sgt. Anita Shaw returned from Iraq to bury her son and will be off once again to stand up for America and fulfill her commitment to her country.  She said on CNN today that she was leaving for Kuwait.  I think she represents the the Spirit of America.  In the face of great personal lost, She goes off to fulfill her obligation and commitment to America.

The time has now come for America to make a commitment to the citizens not just of Iraq and Afghanistan but  Los Angles, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, NYC, Detroit, New Jersey, North and South Carolina and throughout America.

Especially if Americans are leaving these cities to save their remaining children who have yet to be murdered by illegal alien criminal gangs roaming the streets of America.

The first thing to do is to eliminate Sanctuary Cities and anyone standing in the way.  If they are in office, We have to get them out.  Replace them!

A city Councilman Reyes of L.A. Said that to enforce immigration laws in L.A. would have to much of an economic impact.  Tell that to Sgt. Anita Shaw.  The economic consequence that Mr Reyes and the city officials of L.A. should be concerned with are personal lawsuits as the city was negligent in their responsibility to provide for the public safety. 

When the City, State and Federal Governments fail to protect  all citizens from foreign invaders, they should be held financially liable for their dereliction of duty through their advocacy of Sanctuary city policies.

In the mean time we all should work to make Jamiels Law, law.  Under Jamiels Law, When a gang member is pull over or comes into contact with law enforcement and its determined they are undocumented, under Jamiel’s Law they would be fast tracked back to their place of origin.  The people have to rise up and do for themselves what are Cities, States and Federal Governments  appear unwilling or unable to do for us.

We are literally having to fight for the lives of our children who are yet alive, to keep them alive and not have them mistaken by a gang as one of them.  We must work to pass Jamiel’s Law.  We have enough homegrown violent criminals in America, We don’t need those who come here illegally and expand the criminal elements.