If Republicans want to Start Winning, it is time they become Protectionists

This last election period, the Republicans lost many seats in both the House and the Senate, not to mention the Presidency.

From the presidency to both chambers of Congress and from traditionally “free trade” Florida to Colorado and New York to New Mexico, successful candidates in 2008 election races ran on a platform of fundamental overhaul of U.S. trade and globalization policies including a growing number of Republicans, with a net increase in Congress of at least 30 fair trade supporters, according to the new report “Fair Trade Gets an Upgrade” by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division. The number of fair-trade pick-ups in Congress may increase depending on the results of several races not yet called.

“The 2008 election was a veritable tipping point for fair-trade issues, which just reinforces what polls have increasingly shown: The public has had it with the current race-to-the-bottom trade and globalization model, and they voted against those who support it and for those who say they will replace it,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division. “Public expectations after this trade-focused election create pressure to fix the existing trade agreements and policies while further marginalizing various Bush hangover proposals, such as an expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to Colombia, a bilateral investment treaty with China, and more financial service liberalization through the Korea Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round.”

A total of 33 new fair-traders won seats in the House of Representatives, which represents a net change of 26. Four new fair-trade supporters won Senate seats, a net change of four. The report includes trade positions for candidates in over 130 competitive or open seat races. Public Citizen found that in 2008, campaigning on fair trade was not solely a Democratic tactic. More than a dozen incumbent and open-seat fair-trade Republicans beat back tough primary and general election challenges by campaigning on a fair-trade platform, including with paid ads. In a dozen competitive and open seat races, both the Republican and the Democrat competed in an “anti-NAFTA off,” battling to be the most critical of the status-quo trade model.

The election electoral gains for fair-traders mark the second phase (following a 37-seat net gain by fair-traders in 2006) of an unprecedented shift in the U.S. political landscape away from the disastrous trade and globalization policies of the past,” said Todd Tucker, research director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division. “The American public expects a serious debate around replacing the current model.”

The American Public is AGAINST so called Free-Trade. They want Fair-Trade.

Right now, neither the Democrat or Republican party is Championing the Protectionist Dogma.

However, as this past election shows, more Democrats are at least "saying" they are against NAFTA and all the Free-Trade Garbage. I don't know if they really mean it, but they are saying the right thing.

Some Republicans are starting to get on board the Protectionist, Fair-Trade Bus. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo both blasted Free-Trade agreements during the Primary Election.

But we still have many "Free-Traders" in high positions in the Republican Party, i.e. John McCain.

However, Free-Trade is a LOSING ISSUE, not to mention a horrible policy that is sucking the lifeblood from our American Workers who have to compete against slave labor in China paying .40 cents/hr.

Here is what Republicans should do: Starting TODAY form a new Platform saying NO MORE NAFTA, NO MORE CAFTA, No more Free-Trade deals.

The Republican party needs to run on a MANUFACTURING theme in addition to a conservative social policy.

In my next blog I will reveal the main themes the Republican Party needs to Run on ASAP.

It is what I consider another Contract with America (although I would name it something different).

Jimbo

NO MORE CHINESE GIFTS PLEASE

I lead our Church's AWANA program each Wednesday night.

In the past, I have given out CHEAP CHINESE TOYS to the winning team.

About 1/3rd of the stuff was broken, garbage.

This year, I decided enough is enough.

So I now hand out cold hard CASH $$. instead.

The kids LOVE IT.

I feel as though I am doing one small thing to defy China and our horrible free trade policy with them.

I ABSOLUTELY HATE the fact that almost NO TOYS ARE MADE IN THE USA.

We are outsourcing everything, toys, calculators, phones, electronics, clothes, containers, microwaves, power tools, vacuum cleaners, fans, Christmas lights, appliances, medical supplies, baseballs. The list is actually so long it is unbelievable.

I can't stop buying everything from China because almost EVERYTHING is made in China.

But the less I can buy from China the better.

I urge all of you to do your part in supporting USA manufacturers.

As much as you can, stop buying Cheap Chinese Crap.

Jimbo

So many Things to Be Thankful For this Thanksgiving

There are so many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for my wonderful family.
My Son-Calvin
My Daughter-Amber
My Daughter-Kayla
My Beautiful Wife-Faye

I am thankful for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (God in the Flesh). He is the Savior not only of me, but of the ENTIRE WORLD.

I am thankful that I can worship Jesus freely (so far at least) in this Country (USA).

I am thankful for my Parents, Pastor Nick and Patricia for raising me up in a loving, Christian home.

I am thankful for my Wife's Parents, Dr. Felizardo Belga and Yolli Belga, for always being there to support me and my family.

I am thankful for my health (even though I am about 30lbs. overweight).

I am thankful that my whole immediate family is healthy as well.

I am thankful that I have a job that allows my wife to stay at home and raise our 3 wonderful children.

I am thankful for so many other things that would clog up this blog site.

So if you are wondering what to thank God for this Thanksgiving period, I have named a few things above to get you started.

Jimbo

Go See BOLT. Great Family Movie.

From time to time I talk about things other than just political.

This is that time.

Today, me and my family saw the movie, BOLT.

This is a heartwarming, family friendly, dog loving, happy ending movie. There is no swear words. There is no sexual joking or jesting. It is FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY.

I rate BOLT a 10/10 for a family friendly movie. It is rated PG. However, I would have rated it G.

By the way, the Theatre was jammed packed. This goes to show you, a family friendly movie will make money and it doesn't need to be dirty.

So go see BOLT. You won't be disappointed.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/bolt/

Jimbo

Obama "Chooses" Fancy Private School for kids, but No "Choice" for the Poor People of D.C.

This week, President elect, Obama, chose, The Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. for his two daughters.

It is a posh, high class school where ONLY THE RICH NEED APPLY.

It is great that Obama gets to choose this superb school for his daughters.

The price tag is around $30,000 EACH. That is a grand total of $60,000 for school for his two daughters.

However, the poor people of Washington D.C. get NO CHOICE in where they can send their children to school. They are STUCK sending their kids to Gang-ridden, Drug-Infested, Poor-Academic Schools in D.C.

Barack Obama DOES NOT think "they" should have the CHOICE. Even though he has Plenty of Choice. Obama says, if you don't have the money that I do, then too bad, too sad. YOU MUST send your kid to the local Public School, no matter how bad it is.

What a hypocrite. Obama thinks women should have plenty of "choice" when it comes to killing their baby in the womb, but NO SCHOOL CHOICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF D.C.

If Obama REALLY were for the poor and down and out people of D.C., he would give them a voucher, worth say, 30K for each child, that they can use for School for their kids. Then they can have the same CHOICE as He has.

I thought Obama wanted to help the poor and down and out. I guess its all talk. Figures.

Obama is a typical ELITIST.

What is an ELITIST?
It is one who says, "You Poor People are Not as Good as Me." "I am better than You because I am RICH and you are not." "I also know better than you how to educate your kids, because I'm smart and you are dumb." "So don't talk back to me, just shut up and oh, vote for me too."

Class act, this Obama guy huh? NOT!

Jimbo

God-Haters Come Out in Full Force Against Christmas.

The God Haters, Atheists, Secular Humanists, Social Left Wing Idiots have come out in Full Force already for the Christmas season.

This Idiotic group, the American Humanist Association, is spending 40K on stupid ads to run on Washington, D.C. buses, saying, "Why believe in God, just be good for goodness' sake".

Watch as Bill Donohue of the Catholic League takes this joker, Jesse Galef, to task and gives him an oral spanking.


Donohue rips this clown to shreds, bringing out the point that it is ONLY because of the Judeo-Christian Values of this Country that this idiot is even allowed to voice his stupid opinion.

If Jesse here, tried to voice his opinion (that was against the majority) in a country like North Korea, he'd be thrown in prison. Now groups like the American Humanist Association want to kick God out of Christmas.

Notice however, that this group does not go after Muslims on Ramadan.

This is because this group has a SPECIFIC AGENDA ONLY AGAINST CHRISTIANS. It is a Spiritual Battle going on here, between God and Satan. Make no mistake about it.

We as Christians must fight back like Bill Donohue did here, against evil forces like the American Humanist Association, the ACLU, and the Americans for Separation of Church and State.

These are Godless, Hate filled organizations. Stand up and fight against them. Say Merry Christmas everywhere you go.

Jimbo

Hate Filled Gay Mafia Strike Old Lady's Cross and Push Her around!

The Gay Mafia is Mad.

Why?

Because the good people of California voted YES on Prop. 8. Which simply says the obvious. Marriage is between a MAN and WOMAN. This is easy to understand, right?

But the Gay Mafia says No, Marriage is between a Man and a Man or a Woman and a Woman.

To this I say, Whaaaa??

Thank God Prop. 8 passed in California on Election day.

Even though there was millions of $$ + Hollywood Celebrities fighting tooth and nail against it, it still passed.

And now the Gay Mafia is Pissed off. They are REALLY pissed off at Evangelicals.

You see this whole thing is a Spiritual battle of the forces of Godliness vs. Satanic forces.

Homosexuality is a perversion of the worst kind. It says basically to God, F_ _ K you.

The Hate is on the Gay Mafia's side. They are filled with Hate. They Hate God. They Hate Religious people, Religious institutions.
They especially Hate ANYBODY WHO SAYS THEIR LIFESTYLE IS WRONG.

Watch their Hate in action here:

Now at the end of that video, you hear the anchor man saying "There is a lot of hate about this on BOTH SIDES".

Uh, I'm sorry but I see Hate ONLY ON ONE SIDE. This is Crystal Clear. It is on the Gay Mafia side only.

The elderly lady, who by the way has lived in Palm Springs for 30yrs, was PEACEFULLY holding a Cross. However, the Violent Gay Mafia, who were younger and bigger, were BULLYING her and SPITTING on her.

Now the good thing is, this shows the moderates out there, how extreme and hateful the so-called loving homosexual movement really is.

We as proponents of traditional family values and traditional marriage MUST stay vigilant, in order to keep the Gay Mafia from imposing their hate filled doctrine on us all.

Thank God for elderly ladies standing up for what is right.

Jimbo

Disgruntled Obama Campaign Workers--Watch this!

This is hilarious.

Here, Obama speaks about "paying a livable wage", about "fairness", about helping out "main street and and the "down and out".

Yet, as you will clearly see here in this video, the Obama campaign shortchanges its OWN CAMPAIGN WORKERS.

"This is outright fraud", says one disgruntled Obama campaign worker.

"Just come on with my currency", says another irate Obama campaign worker.

"This just ain't right", complains another mad Obama campaign worker.

Police had to be called in to settle the angry crowd.

Why? Because the Obama campaign doesn't want to pay its workers what they are owed.

Also, what about these people's health insurance? Why didn't Obama pay for that?

What about a pension for Obama's campaign workers??

Oh, that's right, Obama thinks only "Other Business owners" need to pay pensions, livable wages, health insurance.

What a hypocrite.

Watch the video now:

The Obama campaign says they will "try" to compensate those who were shortchanged.

I'm sorry but, TRY?? Trying is not good enough.

Pay these people their currency! Come on with the currency!

Obama raked in a record $600 million in campaign cash, now COME ON WITH THE CURRENCY!

Jimbo

Obama in. Gay Marriage Out

Well, this LONG Presidential election is Finally Over. Thank God. Now I can get on with my Life.
Of course I am disappointed, because disagree with Obama on so many VERY important Social Issues. However, McCain is NOT a Culture warrior, and he is a Big Free Trader(which is killing millions of jobs here in the USA). But, McCain was the lesser of two evils in my mind.

Hopefully Obama won't repeal DOMA (defense of marriage act) passed by Bill Clinton.

Hopefully Obama won't push for the Freedom of Choice Act (this act will get rid of ALL sane-minded abortion restrictions like parental notification, and 24hr waiting periods.

It would mean 24hr, 7day a week ABORTION ON DEMAND with NO RESTRICTIONS AT ALL.
Christians, we need to get on our knees and pray that President Obama has an Apostle Paul experience and really sees the light on Abortion and Homosexuality.

Now is not the time for Evangelical Christians to shrink away from the debate on Abortion and Homosexuality. We MUST Pray more for God to intervene while at the same time pushing for restrictions on abortion and upholding Marriage between One Man and One Woman.

Hopefully Obama will not destroy all those Coal Plants like he promised to do, by enacting severe cap and trade greenhouse gas laws which will effectively Bankrupt these Coal Plants meaning millions of lost jobs.

Now for the good news.

In California, Proposition 8 passed and that means NO MORE GAY MARRIAGE. Marriage is Now defined as One Man and One Woman. Pro-Traditional Marriage ballot measures passed in Arizona and Florida by large margins.

70% of the African Americans in California voted Yes on Prop. 8 even though 95% of them voted for Obama. Thank God for these ballot measures and all the hard work involved with getting this to Win.

I am saddened that South Dakota and Colorado lost their Abortion ballot measures.

Don't people understand that LITTLE BABIES in the WOMB are the MOST VULNERABLE and thereby need the MOST PROTECTION??? I just don't get it.

What about the Baby's Choice, Huh??

This is why we must continue to Pray that God will open people's eyes and change their hearts from a heart of stone to a heart of love for little babies.

Pray America, Pray.

Jimbo

Obama "I will Bankrupt ALL Coal Plants". Are you listening Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio?

New Shocking Video from January that He told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Barack Obama PROMISES to BANKRUPT Coal Plants if He becomes President.

Hear that Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Indiana. If these plants go bankrupt, MILLIONS of People will LOSE their Jobs.

Well, I guess they can always apply for a job at the Obama 2012 campaign.

Here it is People, in Obama's own words:


Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry?
Would this declaration not immediately be front page news?

Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview.

The result? Nothing. This audio interview has been hidden from the public...until now.
Here is the transcript of Obama's statement about bankrupting the coal industry.

"Let me sort of describe my overall policy."

"What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there."

"I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year."

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.It's just that it will bankrupt them.

There you heard it. Obama wants to bankrupt a Major US industry. And why? Because Obama is beholden to the Radical Environmental Mafia. He cares more for them than middle class America's Jobs.

Once again Shame on Barack Hussein Obama.

If McCain is smart, he will flood TV and Radio airwaves with this crucial information.

Jimbo