Goals For A Sustainable Florida

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Agenda 21 and all its components to include ICLEI in our cities and counties, to Catch Share initiatives involving Sector Separation, Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning and the implementation of all other United Nation protocols that relieve the American of the Freedoms to which we have fought and spilled blood for. Dues to the UN are unconstitutional as to which all protocols called for, in the treaty signed by Executive Order, Land of the Sea Treaty, LOST by President Obama earlier this year of our Lord 2011, are to unconstitutional as this treaty to and with the UN was NOT RATIFIED bu the US Senate, therefore making it nullified and void, Executive Order or not! By eliminating all aspects of Agenda 21, throughout Florida and the country, it will downsize bureaucratic government in additional rules to regulations and open our job market and bring new enterprises into the state in creating a business friendly market.

Rules and regulations of big government to banks that cannot fail are strangling our state in making it harder to purchase a new car to a new home. The Florida Legislature must come forward in making some bold statements to the nation in showing Florida will lead the way to a stronger nation. Bank fees in Florida must stop! Banks already make money off your money, why should they make more off the money you do not have extra to give them?

Here in Florida we have the DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, so why do we follow rules to regulations set forth by the EPA? We have our own protection and do not need a partnership in disasters. If the Federal Government wishes to ban the EPA, that is wonderful, less strangulation to small businesses but we, here in Florida must push our Florida Legislated group to press for State Sovereignty and end an era of dictatorship with the EPA.

Supporting an “idea” of creating a Florida Housing initiative, in that we have so many houses either in foreclosure or foreclosed on. With this bubble in houses sitting vacant, how could we allow those who want, to have, what we have; vacant houses? HUD is another failure gone wrong yet it still thrives and does nothing but impose more rules to regulations to those in need. There is no special mode of one size fits all. Yet, with HUD, a big governmental agency, it thrives while many a homeless in Florida are in need but do not fall with in their rules. Florida needs its own regulatory agency, not HUD, in that people could rent to own, sweat equity in fixing it up, to rentals in general. Why cannot the state work out a solution with the banks and put a roof over its peoples heads. Floridians have a vision, I have a vision and we together could make this happen.

Many are against the idea of “Drill baby Drill” off Florida's coast. I have respect for that but I too drive a car? Oil is a mainstay to the world from the plastic keyboard I am typing this on to the gasoline in my truck. Alternative fuels are being investigated and in some cases, used but oil at this time in our world is a mainstay, like it or not. Gas exploration is the new generation, as it is of a plenty but again one must drill to get it. If Florida is not to partake in passing State Sovereignty, oil exploration could happen with or with out our governments approval, as Agenda 21 kicks in, with LOST, as our State waters are now only three miles from shore and if say, Brazil wished to drill in Federal waters, it could and would off your Florida beaches. Florida needs to reject Agenda 21 and take our State waters back. If Florida were to get into the oil game, I would suggest the building of a new refinery at one or more of our deep-water ports. A refinery has not been built since the 1960's in the USA because of EPA rules and regulations. It is a gold mine waiting for somebody to strike it rich bring in jobs, jobs, jobs! To that, in Florida cheap prices at the pump and a new beginning.

In Florida we have the Florida Lottery. We have bingo halls in almost every city. We have gaming on reservation owned property. We have the dog tracks but we do not have open gaming or sports betting; Why is that? You cannot say, Florida does not want gambling, as we already have it. If we were to set a standard where a fair percentage went towards our homeless population and maybe, say, a fund in helping those in additional needs from medical to housing, why would we not allow more? It would mean construction jobs for the Gaming halls and hotels to roadways and maintenance. It would require servers, management, cooks, dealers, plumbers and on and on. A win, win with more jobs in Florida by Florida for Florida! On the other hand and food for thought, looking on the other side of the fence; Florida could probably generate more revenue by raising fees on license plates or increasing the sales tax by a penny or so, than through legalized gambling but I pay enough on my license plates and on my fixed income, do not want more taxes on my goods making my income smaller. I like the idea that thousands of jobs in the construction and service industries would be created, as I can think of a couple of people out of work where I live and I'll bet you can too.

Florida needs to step up to the plate with its internet sales, as other states have enacted this proposal, we too should consider this idea as it would expand our states coffers in more revenue; for every 10 percent of internet-only retail sales returned to Florida retailers (either through an internet sale or a sale at a physical store), total Florida retail sales will increase by between $2.8 billion and $3.1 billion by 2020 with an expected impact of 8,300 to 9,200 additional jobs. Expanding our immediate revenues between $449.6 million and $454 million in 2012. All of this in just making those online, in sales, to play by the same rules as bricks and mortar retailers. A tax Fairness rule is needed as it would encourage economic growth and foster job-creation in Florida while addressing the priorities the state needs in raising revenues. With additional revenues coming into the state coffers, the Florida Legislature and the Governor could then relieve the burdens of new business by offering lawmakers revenue-neutral options by eliminating the corporate income tax. More sales, more jobs, more incentives; Florida for Florida First, maybe the rest of the country could follow with such put through Congress too.

At anytime, anywhere, the President, while aboard Air Force 1, has full correspondence as well the capabilities to address the nation or the world at the touch of a button. We too, as Americans, with our Black Berries to I pads, laptops, whatever, too are connected to the world at the touch of a button. SO Why do Congressional Representatives have to travel to and fro in an attempt to run our country? Kind of archaic is it not, during this era in our lives of electronics! Think how much it would save us tax payers, if we were not paying for Room and Board to the renting of private jets to go to work, all while receiving a six figure salary? Sure, maybe for two weeks out of the year, a trip would be in order but the rest of the time; at home, tapping buttons on a very secure line!

And now that our Congress are tapping buttons on secure lines or not, they still work less than, in generalities, 140-160 days a year. A six figure salary for half a years work and this year, how hard are they actually working? I purpose that a ten percent or more salary reduction be in order for all of our Congress and the President. If the cuts start here, make them start at the steps to freedom; with the President & Congress! Making a statement the American people will applaud too.

Florida for Floridians! Nobody else is going to look after our affairs, so we better start now. I need your help in putting in a bid to run as the first third party on the ballot from our past, The Whig Party. Hence, I live in Florida so I am an ambassador of The Florida Whig Party and I implore you to donate no matter which party you are registered in because this is not about parties; just Florida and how it will effect you and I. These are but IDEAS! It is my CONVERSATION with Florida but if I cannot fill my coffers to get on the ballot, my thoughts for a better Florida, Country and wellness for all, will just be dust in the wind. Will You Please Give to help out your Country and State? Third Party Politics, with a back to the basics attitude; as it was the Whig party that started it all in the first place. Why not give a hand to the underdog? You never know where it may take the country but I promise you this: Principles before Party, Personality and Profit with deeds not words. It's just that simple!

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Florida's OTTED: Could Be Our Savior

BILL KACZOR's article, in Bloomberg Business Week; New Fla. agency to attack economic development is a good article but fails to ask why after the applauded job of shutting down the Department of Community Affairs and merging it into OTTED, Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development, would even consider throwing good money after bad in planning amendments that will permit more than a million new housing units to be constructed here, where Florida has a glutton in the housing market with failed loans, foreclosure and abandoned residential building sites? As well, the article brings up the statement to quote, 'As part of that effort, he said the department will ask the Legislature to change the name of the assistance given to jobless workers.

"The governor firmly believes that we need to indecisive people not to go to work, so we're going to propose during the next session to re-brand unemployment compensation to `re-employment assistance.'"

This is more money, spent on a Legislation, that needs not to be for by renaming the wheel, it will not make it move any faster; it is still a wheel and needs incentive behind it, not a name change. Put our people back to work, not the Legislature, they have enough on their plates already in our war on Job Growth and to see light at the end of the tunnel, like as seen in Florida's Gambling ventures! An idea in aggressively working to bring in revenues to the State, while also addressing jobs to construction is for this new Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development to review a new comprehensive strategy on Gaming to Gambling laws. Florida needs a process that respects each and every counties wishes thoughts on gambling; those counties too wish not to partake in this venture may, at their own local level ban it and those to whom wish it, get it! With a suggested decrease in taxation rates and being more lax on gaming policies, high stake billion-dollar resort proponents could flourish in Florida, with Florida catching the dust from the sidelines in making for a reasonably high performance for future State revenues, allowing for more government to stay open for business and bringing more tourists to us.

Environmentalists and growth management advocates of Florida, as well, those in the remodeled Department of Community Affairs, have been a thorn in the foot to growth. A downsizing voice; where the State of Florida could make leaps to bounds in creating job growth if we quit fumbling around in more useless spending by formally changing names; that cost monies better used elsewhere and did nothing in creating more needed jobs. By abolishing the Department of Community Affairs, Florida may once again get back into the construction game of the commercial kind from Port expansions, to new business complexes, to infrastructure with less restrictions on how we walk on the grounds we live! This new OTTED maybe ought to be rethinking about 'how to redevelop and change our existing foreclosure laws and until alternative fuels come out of their infancy of development, relaxing our views on oil. This would bring in more jobs and help in a boost in alternative fuel development, as we would reap the benefits of both, as we wean ourselves off the possibility of petroleum based production. Covering all our bases and helping to ensure a practical growth for Florida. We could be the “poster-child of the nation!”

I, Gary A. Anderson, too am a tree-huger but not to the extent that I would live in a tent while their was a forest around me; I would build a house of lumber, allow others to chop and build more houses but in return, restrict the number of houses made of lumber in the community and plant a new tree for each chopped. That is environmentalism, not banning the building of anything over a blade of grass in its way to not allowing progress to jobs happening because it might upset the balance of the time. Construction to relaxing certain restrictions on new businesses will bring growth to Florida and the nation, as well! Something our Environmentalist have forgotten to do; advise, not direct.

Think With Your Hearts and Vote for Your Principles and Florida, as our Great Nation, will thank You for it! I, Gary A. Anderson, in Testing the Waters for Senate am Running on the the virtues of “Principles before Party, Personality or Profit, with deeds not words”, in a bid of Exploratory Candidate, US Senate FL 2012...The Florida Whig Party.

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