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Joe Bonamassa At The Saenger

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This is BIG. Just last year he played in Royal Albert Hall, and recently won best blues guitarist of the year. And now, my favorite blues guitarist ever, after finishing his latest European tour, IS COMING TO PENSACOLA’s Saenger Theater on December 1, 2010. Get your tickets early. It’s gotta be sold out soon.

Here he is performing ‘Stop’ at Royal Albert Hall.

And here’s a studio recording of the ‘Ballad of John Henry.’

This is just the tip of the iceberg of this guy’s talent. Uh, see you there!

Links: Saenger Theater, Pensacola |  Joe Bonamassa

2010 Election, Economy, Florida, Media, Politics

Khavari For Governor YouTube Video

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This isn’t a flashy video produced in Hollywood. It’s not funded by the coffers of the DNC or the RNC. And it’s not funded by special interests. Unless by ‘special interests’ you mean you and me and individual citizens around the State of Florida who care as much about Florida as he does. Right, it’s not fancy or flashy. And, it doesn’t attack the character of his opponents nor does it call them evil or criminals. I already did that.

What it does do is show you how sincere candidate Farid Khavari (I) is on helping the State of Florida and its citizens. He details the reason you should vote for him. He doesn’t tell you why you should not vote for someone else. How refreshing!

Isn’t this the kind of person we’ve been looking for to be chief executive of our state? Farid Khavari is the only candidate with an actual plan for the State of Florida that will promote economic recovery and create private sector jobs while making it possible for people to stay in their homes.

Like him, I invite you to go to his website and check out his plan for yourself. Then on November 2, vote for the person you think can deliver for Florida instead of the candidate with the most TV and print exposure. I think you will find that to be Dr. Farid Khavari, Independent candidate for Governor of the State of Florida.

Link: Khavari For Governor

Economy, Energy, Florida, Politics

Jobless ‘Recovery’, And Here’s Why

Top 10 Reasons for Obama’s Jobless Recovery

by Donald Lambro

1. Stimulus package didn’t stimulate: The economy is growing too slowly under President Obama’s failed government-spending stimulus because it lacks any incentives for increased private investment, risk taking, venture-capital formation and new business formation, the basis of new job creation. The mediocre economic-growth rate is not strong enough to drive down a nearly 10% unemployment rate. (It’s approaching 12% in Florida.)

2. Business uncertainty: Widespread uncertainty across the business community about Obama’s job-killing tax, spending and regulatory agenda that has prevented businesses from expanding and hiring more workers and reinvesting an estimated $1.8 trillion in reserve funds.

3. Tax uncertainty: No uncertainty is more paralyzing than the administration’s plan to allow President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 top tax cuts on dividends, capital gains and upper incomes to expire at the end of this year, raising them at a time when the economy and businesses are still struggling in a weak economic environment.

4. Tax impact: Private investment is the life blood of a dynamic and growing economy and the wellspring of all new jobs. If Obama goes through with his plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire, small business, family-owned enterprises, working families, investors and retirees will be hit by very large tax hikes that will weaken capital reinvestment and kill job creation.

5. Government spending: The more money that government takes from the economy to feed an insatiable spending binge, the less there is in the private sector to create new jobs.

6. Obamacare impact: Obamacare’s job killing impact on businesses large and small has been swift and undiscriminating. Soon after Obama signed the bill, major corporations were forced to take billions of dollars in new charges on their profit line to cover the increased cost of the new law. Major firms like Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere & Co. and Illinois Tool Works, among others saw their tax deductions for companies offering drug benefits had been cut to pay for the plan’s nearly $1 trillion cost.

7. Financial regulation bill: This sweeping government regulation legislation will raise costs throughout the entire banking and financial regulation industry. That will mean higher costs for consumers and in turn force the industry to prune payrolls or other cost-cutting moves to bolster their bottom line earnings.

8. Energy cap-and-trade taxes: The so-called climate-change tax bill that Democrats passed in the House, and has been stalled in the Senate, was one of the biggest economic uncertainties threatening economic growth and job formation. It would impose sharply higher, job-killing energy costs across the nation’s entire energy industry, hurting producers, businesses and manufacturers, and consumers. U.S. businesses, to avoid the tax, would have to move plants elsewhere to avoid the tax, moving jobs out of the country.

9. Economic restructuring: One of the big reasons for slower job growth stems from our economy’s ability to boost productivity with fewer workers through increased technology, mechanization and other production innovations. Faster economic growth would increase hiring in all of business sectors and new business formation would lift our economy to a much higher employment rate. Lower business tax rates, faster depreciation of capital purchases for new equipment, zeroing out capital gains and dividend tax rates to unlock new capital investment for start-up companies would spark an explosion in new firms and hiring.

10. Minimum wage: No government initiative has killed more entry-level jobs than the higher minimum wage. Congress pushed up the federal minimum wage in the midst of a severe recession, from $6.55 in 2008 to $7.25 in 2009. Small businesses struggling to survive in the downturn were hurt most and quickly cut their payrolls. Unemployment shot way up for younger workers, especially among blacks, Hispanics and other unskilled minorities. Almost half of blacks between 16 and 34 are jobless, up 13% since March 2008.

2010 Election, Economy, Florida, Politics

Khavari’s Plan Is Florida’s Recovery, And Yours

Only 1 candidate for FL governor has a real economic plan for over 1,000,000 new jobs

Alex Sink and Rick Scott get most of the media attention. But there is an Independent candidate on the November ballot who is a respected economist and author of nine books: Farid Khavari.

Sink and Scott say they can create jobs by lowering taxes on business–but this has never worked before. Khavari will create over 1,000,000 private sector jobs without subsidies or “stimulus” plans.

The Khavari Economic Plan includes creation of a bank owned by all Floridians. 2% fixed-rate, 15-year mortgages (new and refinance) will earn billions for the state while reducing costs of home ownership by more than half. Housing prices will stabilize and there will never be another bubble. Our children will be able to afford homes, too. Combined with low-cost financing for business, energy, and 6% credit cards, Floridians will save many billions per year, while creating over 1,000,000 new jobs. Khavari’s plan will stop foreclosures and put people back in their homes. State and local budgets will balance overnight without new taxes. Florida will be recession-proof forever. This is common sense economics, from a common sense economist. Khavari’s plan has received national acclaim and candidates in other states have adopted it. Florida needs the Khavari Economic Plan.

Sink, a multi-millionaire retired banker and current Chief Financial Officer of Florida, has done nothing to create jobs and allowed the State Board of Administration to lose billions in phony investments. Scott made over $200,000,000 as CEO of a health-care company. Aren’t people like that part of the problem? Khavari has the solution.

Find out more at www.khavariforgovernor.com. Vote to save Florida’s economy, before it’s too late. Vote Khavari.

2010 Election, Florida, Media, Pensacola, Politics

In Florida, What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Especially when it comes to learning about who is running for governor in Florida in 2010. There is only one candidate that actually has a plan to reduce the state’s debt, recover the billions of dollars lost by the Sink-McCollum-Crist triumvirate, create the environment for permanent private-sector job creation in the state, and reduce the cost of living for Floridians, putting Floridians in a financial position to keep their homes out of foreclosure, all without raising their taxes or borrowing more money. But you will never know it from reading the ‘Election‘ pages of the Pensacola News Journal. That candidate is Dr. Farid A. Khavari.

That there is a political media filter at work, and being perpetrated on you, is obvious with a cursory glance at the 2010 Elections pages of the Pensacola News Journal.

I don’t know why this is. Only the News Journal knows for sure. Where Independent candidate Farid Khavari is concerned, I know it’s not because they are not aware of him or his platform. There was a time when the newspaper was motivated to inform the voting public of their options. Now our options get filtered for us. Or more correctly, on us. So the question becomes whether this filter is a result of an agenda or something else?

But more important than even that, the consequences of electing the wrong candidate will cost us all.

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2010 Election, Economy, Florida, Pensacola, Politics

Privatizing Citizens Is Wrong

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Let Floridians save 30% while the state earns billions!

Rick Scott’s proposal to privatize Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is simply a bad idea. It would guarantee increased rates. There is a much better way to fix Citizens. Citizens is a mess with potentially huge exposure. That can be remedied, with 30% savings for all Floridians while the state treasury can earn billions per year. You don’t need to be an economist to understand this. It is just common sense.

Citizens is in trouble because it guarantees private insurers’ profits, and foists all of the risk onto Florida taxpayers. This is an obvious recipe for disaster. Citizens covers the riskiest 22% of Florida homes, nicely protecting the private insurers at our expense. Private insurers exploit Floridians worse each year. State Farm raised rates 14.7% and dumped another 125,000 policyholders this year. Was there a hurricane I missed?

Citizens should offer all homeowners in Florida coverage identical to what they have now from private insurers, at a 30% discount. Just bring your policy to an agent and save 30% by switching to Citizens.

Adding the “safest” 78% of Florida homes to risk pool would dilute Citizens’ risk to the lowest in the nation. Then Citizens could reduce rates by 30% to its existing customers, too. Even the worst hurricanes affect only a small percentage of Florida’s 8 million homes.

Six million new customers, saving only $500 per year, is $3 billion per year. That would generate at least $25 billion per year of economic activity in Florida, creating 30,000 jobs. The state could earn $5 billion per year in profit. Citizens would no longer be just the largest property insurer in Florida, but the safest and most profitable in America.

$25 billion in economic activity this year will make $50 billion next year, and another 30,000 jobs. And so on.

No need to argue about “socialism.” The state is already in the insurance business, with no realistic way out. The question is, shall we make some money at it and save Floridians billions per year? Or encourage more private insurers to suck even more blood out of our families and our state’s economy?

When everyone works for the state, we call it socialism. What do we call it when the state works for everyone? Common sense.

Sincerely,

Farid A. Khavari, Ph.D.

Economist and Candidate for Florida Governor (Independent, 2010)

2010 Election, Economy, Florida, Politics

The Gamblers; Crist, Sink, And McCollum

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It may be a difficult read, but if you really want to know who is responsible for losing billions of dollars of Florida’s pension funds, you must read this. Next thing is, don’t reward them with your vote.

For governor of the State of Florida, stick with Dr. Farid Khavari. An economist who not only knows better on how to manage resources, but he is the only one with a sound economic plan to put Florida back on the path to prosperity and to replace the money lost by Sink, McCollum, and Crist.

Related Links: Risk won; taxpayers lost – St. Petersburg Times |  Khavari for Governor

Economy, Florida, Pensacola, Politics, Supreme Court

Hearings On Obamacare Begin Tomorrow

Hearings on the State of Florida (and dozens of others) v United States begin tomorrow at U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Florida. The state is challenging the health care legislation on several angles, not the least of which is that the Federal Government can not force citizens to buy health insurance or a certain kind of health insurance if they don’t want to.