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Party</category><category>communication</category><dc:date>2011-02-19T18:13:58-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/it_will_take_passion_to_win_in_2012.php#unique-entry-id-41</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/it_will_take_passion_to_win_in_2012.php#unique-entry-id-41</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Having been raised by loving, Christian parents, something was deeply disturbing to me about saying the Governor standing in the schoolhouse door while white college students cheered and jeered at the girl who only wanted to go to school and get an education.  <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Now’s the Time for Unflinching Leadership</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Politics</category><category>2011 Legislative Session</category><dc:date>2011-02-12T15:17:17-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/time_for_unflinching_leadership.php#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/time_for_unflinching_leadership.php#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Scott needs to remind the Republicans of our conviction that the problem with public education is not &lsquo;inputs&rsquo; (lack of money) but more to do with lack of measuring &lsquo;output&rsquo; (are children learning and what are they learning). <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tyranny by the Majority - Part I</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>U.S. Constitution</category><category>Democracy</category><category>Liberty</category><dc:date>2011-01-28T15:20:26-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/tyranny_by_the_majority.php#unique-entry-id-37</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/tyranny_by_the_majority.php#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Today, we have a nation where it is taken as a fait accompli that government not only has the power, but also has a duty, to look out for the economic well being of every citizen, even if it means taking from a productive citizen and giving to an unproductive one. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Governor Scott Needs to Talk Consumer Protection</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Rick Scott</category><category>Regulation</category><category>consumer protection</category><dc:date>2011-01-07T15:03:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_consumer_protection.php#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_consumer_protection.php#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yet, the real question is whether you are simply going to plug in some pro-business cronies as agency heads to stack the deck for the business community for a while, only to have them replaced by more liberal, big-government bureaucrats when your term is over, or whether you are going to really role back the tangled web of regulatory socialism? 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hey Rick, Tell the Florida Bar Sections to KISS</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Legislature</category><category>Rick Scott</category><category>Florida Bar</category><dc:date>2010-12-31T11:40:22-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/florida_bar_legislative_agenda.php#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/florida_bar_legislative_agenda.php#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The do-gooders at the Florida Bar never stop for a minute to consider that every re-write to the law tampers with legal environment in which small businesses live, changing the equilibrium and imposing costs of compliance on each small business, not to mention creating an atmosphere of uncertainty about what the next Legislative session will bring. 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>GOP Controlled State Governments Look to Make Changes in 2011</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Politics</category><category>Florida Legislature</category><category>Florida Budget</category><dc:date>2010-12-24T10:13:29-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/gop_controlled_state_governments_look_to_make_changes_2011.php#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/gop_controlled_state_governments_look_to_make_changes_2011.php#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When a new wave of politicians takes office in January, Republicans will hold a majority of governorships and their greatest number of state legislative seats since 1928 &mdash; giving them the muscle to enact the pro-business agenda they promised to voters concerned about high unemployment and an economy that has yet to make its big rebound following the Great Recession.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Byrd Report Looking for a Few Good Pens</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Political Blogging</category><category>blogs</category><category>Politics</category><dc:date>2010-12-17T12:12:55-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/a_few_good_pens.php#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/a_few_good_pens.php#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The goal is to stimulate the expression of conservative political commentary here in Florida, and there&rsquo;s no better way to become one of &lsquo;the few, the proud&rsquo; who can articulate conservative free market principles. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Something the Legislature Can't Sweep Under the Rug</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Legislature</category><category>congress</category><category>spending</category><category>Florida Budget</category><category>Welfare</category><category>Unemployment Compensation</category><dc:date>2010-12-11T20:34:33-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/legislature_sweep_under_the_rug.php#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/legislature_sweep_under_the_rug.php#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is not rocket science either, if government gives something away, such as healthcare or free cash to unemployed folks, there are only three things that can be done to stop up the hole in the bottom of the proverbial bucket: Limit who gets the government giveaway, limit what or how much they get or in the case of the government purchasing products for people, limit what the government is willing to pay for the products it provides. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eliminating Earmarks - Don't Count On It!</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>congress</category><category>Earmarks</category><category>budget</category><category>spending </category><dc:date>2010-12-04T22:18:15-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/eliminating_earmarks.php#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/eliminating_earmarks.php#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Senator Grassley, an ethanol subsidy supporter, fired back that DeMint and Coburn should agree to eliminate oil and gas subsidies, to which DeMint nobly said that everything is on the table.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy Thanksgiving 2010</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>National Affairs</category><category>Socialism</category><category>communism</category><dc:date>2010-11-24T10:20:11-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/happy_thanksgiving_2010.php#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/happy_thanksgiving_2010.php#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As a college student during the turbulent 1960&rsquo;s, I remember my Dad telling me that after he graduated from high school as valedictorian 1930, he couldn&rsquo;t afford to go to college or find a job, so he started a little grocery store. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Election 2010 In-Review</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>2010 Elections</category><dc:date>2010-11-19T07:57:38-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/2010_election_in_review.php#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/2010_election_in_review.php#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Petersburg Times reported Ed Turanchik, a former county commissioner and longtime rail advocate who is running for mayor of Tampa, as saying there are alternatives to light rail that are cheaper and would serve people in outlying areas who largely voted against the transit tax.  <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hey Rick - I Hope You Become an Inept Government Hater</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Government Efficiency and Accountability</category><category>Rick Scott</category><category>Government Waste</category><dc:date>2010-11-12T18:39:17-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/inept_government_hater.php#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/inept_government_hater.php#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ask yourself would you be discouraged if you were one of the 75% of small businesses in Florida that had less than a handful of employees and you just read the Bureau of Labor Statistics news release (USDL-10-1241) that shows that state and local government workers averaged $39.74 per hour compensation compared to private sector workers who averaged $27.64.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hey Rick, here's an idea...</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Politics</category><dc:date>2010-11-06T11:18:28-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_suggestion_box.php#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_suggestion_box.php#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m willing to be that there are a goodly number of RINOs in that new legislature, not to mention a number of folks who have been bought and sold by certain special interests and left-leaning groups such as the trial lawyers and education union. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why I Liked Rob Wallace</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Senate</category><category>Florida Politics</category><category>Election 2010</category><category>Taxation</category><dc:date>2010-10-29T09:44:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/why_i_liked_rob_wallace.php#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/why_i_liked_rob_wallace.php#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Only problem was that he was the only member of the Green Dogs, but that did not dissuade Rob from passing out the Green Dog budget analysis sheets to all the Members before budget votes, and so as not to be missed all Green Dog handouts were printed on a distinctive green paper! <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The View Toward Political Correctness</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>National Affairs</category><category>Political Correctness</category><dc:date>2010-10-17T14:02:49-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/view_toward_political_correctness.php#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/view_toward_political_correctness.php#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My first real pause over political correctness came in the mid 1990&rsquo;s when as a practicing attorney I had to purchase 1,000 page update to the Florida Code that simply substituted &ldquo;he or she&rdquo; for &ldquo;he&rdquo; and &ldquo;his or her&rdquo; for &ldquo;his&rdquo; in every sentence in Florida law. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Florida Ripe for Non-Judicial Foreclosures</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>The Law</category><category>Morgage Crisis</category><category>Florida Economy</category><category>Florida Judiciary</category><dc:date>2010-10-09T16:02:13-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/non_judicial_foreclosure.php#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/non_judicial_foreclosure.php#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ostensibly, all the commotion by the bench and bar and clerks was related to the court system&rsquo;s &lsquo;backlog&rsquo; and the cost or impact thereof, but it can be argued that the real motivation of the Court and the Bar was a ham-handed attempt at social justice with a view toward stopping or seriously slowing the foreclosures of residential mortgages, period. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Florida Constitutional Amendments</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>2010 Elections</category><category>Florida Constitutional Amendments</category><category>Taxation</category><category>Education</category><category>Class Size</category><category>Military</category><dc:date>2010-10-01T11:51:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/florida_constitutional_amendments.php#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/florida_constitutional_amendments.php#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This election season features the same special interests pitted one against the other over proposals they suggest could end &lsquo;life as we know it&rsquo; in Florida, or at least that&rsquo;s what the lobbyists and executive directors of untold trade associations are predicting in order to stir the emotions, and pocketbooks, of the rank and file membership (who fund the TV ads you are now having to tolerate). 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Who Will Stop Radical Islam? or Who is Molly Norris? or The Fatwa Comes to Town</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Islam</category><category>National Affairs</category><category>Radical Islam</category><dc:date>2010-09-25T17:10:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_stop_radical_islam_or_who_Molly_Norris.php#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_stop_radical_islam_or_who_Molly_Norris.php#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Good grief, Obama has awakened America to what a bad idea socialism is, but thank you, Molly, for drawing out the Obama regime&rsquo;s self-loathing, pro-Islamic bent, even when it means telling one of our own citizens to &lsquo;pound sand&rsquo; for exercising her right to free speech.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>River of Money</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Campaign Finance</category><category>Republican Party of Florida</category><category>Lobbyists</category><category>Special Interest Groups</category><dc:date>2010-09-19T19:02:42-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_stop_them_part_ii.php#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_stop_them_part_ii.php#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Now there are at least two types of special interest groups (principals) who are regulated by government, and thus hire lobbyists: those who don&rsquo;t want to be regulated and those who do, the second group being far more scary than the first.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Who Will Have the Courage to Stop Them?</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Immigration</category><category>War on Terror</category><category>International Affairs</category><category>Radical Islam</category><category>The Economy</category><dc:date>2010-09-10T12:24:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_have_the_courge_to_stop_them.php#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/who_will_have_the_courge_to_stop_them.php#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One open border advocate summed it up as follows: &ldquo;Every Mexican immigrant in the United States today, legal or illegal, and every Mexican man, woman, or child who crosses the border, legally or illegally, into the U.S. to work and build a better life is reclaiming a share of the Mexican birthright in North America denied to his/her people for over a century and a half.&rdquo;
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rick Scott &amp; Republican Hypocrisy</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>2010 Elections</category><category>Florida Governors Race</category><dc:date>2010-08-28T11:16:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_republican_hypocrisy.php#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/rick_scott_republican_hypocrisy.php#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Like most of us Republicans in the &lsquo;outback&rsquo;, I believe in power of conservative &lsquo;principles&rsquo; not in the power of big money interests who pay the bills, but don&rsquo;t care about principles unless it gets them their way. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What I Like About Sandy Murman</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Local Government</category><category>2010 Elections</category><category>conservatism</category><dc:date>2010-08-20T19:52:17-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_sandy_murman.php#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_sandy_murman.php#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And, for those of you who wonder about her stands on social issues, there&rsquo;s never been a doubt that Sandy is a social conservative either because she was our &lsquo;go to&rsquo; member when a pro-life bill needed to be moved through the Florida House. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What I Like About Jim Norman</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>conservatism</category><category>Florida State Senate</category><category>2010 Elections</category><dc:date>2010-08-20T19:19:24-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_jim_norman.php#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_jim_norman.php#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As someone who has been on the front lines battling with Republican RINO State Senators in Tallahassee, I will tell you that there is one thing that would be a breath of fresh air in Tallahassee: If you want a change in Tallahassee, stop sending &lsquo;moderates&rsquo; to the Senate and replace them with tough, knowledgeable and principled Republican conservatives. 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What I Like About Rick Scott</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Politics</category><category>Florida Governors Race</category><category>Healthcare</category><dc:date>2010-08-15T10:32:44-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_rick_scott.php#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/what_i_like_about_rick_scott.php#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The result is a marriage made in campaign heaven: The big money boys are using the Republican Party leader&rsquo;s soft money infrastructure as a conduit for their anti-Scott campaign cash&hellip; Which brings up the third reason I like Rick Scott.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What I Like About Jeff Kottkamp</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Florida Politics</category><category>2010 Elections</category><category>Jeff Kottkamp</category><category>Attorney General</category><dc:date>2010-08-05T22:07:57-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/why_I_like_jeff_kottkamp.php#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/why_I_like_jeff_kottkamp.php#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s put someone in the office of Attorney General that will allow us to sleep soundly at night with the knowledge that we have a true, blue and tested-by-fire conservative Republican on the statewide team. 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tampa Tribune Lipstick</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>conservatism</category><category>Taxation</category><category>Local Government</category><category>Economics</category><dc:date>2010-07-30T20:04:18-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/tampa_tribune_editorial_lipstick.php#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/tampa_tribune_editorial_lipstick.php#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Moving on to the downtown elite&rsquo;s new golden boy, Trey Rustmann, the Tribune editorial economic geniuses, Joe Guidry, Jeff Stidham, Jim Beamguard and William Yelverton, posit that, &ldquo;[Trey Rustmann] believes in small government and is committed to ferreting out waste but supports the transportation referendum as a way to attract jobs and improve the local business climate. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Spillapalooza</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>The Nation</category><category>Environment</category><dc:date>2010-07-22T20:47:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/Spillapalooza.php#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/Spillapalooza.php#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If the state were to approve drilling, it would be wise to negotiate a revenue split with the federal government that is higher than the 37.5% that was previously agreed to in 2006 for other states.  <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Choo Many Options?</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Local Government</category><category>Transportation</category><category>Taxation</category><category>spending</category><dc:date>2010-07-16T08:10:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/choomanyoptions.php#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/choomanyoptions.php#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Enlightened by the wiki for &lsquo;summit&rsquo; most probably thought the meeting was either a symposium on the Cold War board game by Milton Bradley called &ldquo;Summit - The Top Level Game of Global Strategy", or at least a discussion group on the 1999 episode of The Outer Limits TV show entitled &ldquo;Summit&rdquo; (plot about Humans from Earth and a genetically engineered race from Dregocia meeting to work out a peace accord). <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>When Will We Break the Back of Small Business?</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-07-09T13:56:54-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/949b79986e118db3c78a558e0805fb43-9.php#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/949b79986e118db3c78a558e0805fb43-9.php#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I saw the Clerk at a business function recently, and I told her to quit &lsquo;bellyaching&rsquo; about her funding because all of us small business folks had cut back more than government ever will.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Josh Burgin - Lionheart</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Taxation</category><category>Economics</category><category>Local Government</category><category>Florida Politics</category><dc:date>2010-07-02T08:27:41-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/josh_burgin_lionheart.php#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/josh_burgin_lionheart.php#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&ldquo;The bottom line is that a majority of the people put Republicans in office, and the Republican philosophy is one of fiscal restraint,&rdquo; said Byrd, who keeps a copy of the book Those Dirty Rotten Taxes on his desk in the Capitol. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hillsborough Transportation Tax - Part II</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>spending</category><category>Taxation</category><category>Local Government</category><category>conservatism</category><dc:date>2010-06-25T09:19:42-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/hillsborough_tax_increase_part_2.php#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/hillsborough_tax_increase_part_2.php#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With the influx of outrageous legal fees paid to bond counsel, these high brow lawyers will have to buy the best tailored suits available &ndash; so the tailor will now be a winner again in selling our bond counsel a new suit, a suit that the proverbial baker will not be able to buy because of the impact of the sales tax increase on his private sector business.
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gulf Spill - Opportunity in Chaos</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Environment</category><dc:date>2010-06-18T12:17:56-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/gulfspillopportunityinchaos.php#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/gulfspillopportunityinchaos.php#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While radical environmentalists are flailing around and wandering around aimlessly in a state of shock over the Gulf oil spill, Christians are seeing real 'opportunity' in the &lsquo;chaos&rsquo; to recommit themselves to sound, but science based energy and environmental policy, not to mention reaching out to a suffering world with the message of God's love. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Prodigious Perennial Panics</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Economics</category><category>Taxation</category><category>spending</category><dc:date>2010-06-11T08:29:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/prodigious_perennial_panics.php#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/prodigious_perennial_panics.php#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jett Lauck wrote this in his research paper entitled &ldquo;The Cause of the Crisis of 1893&rdquo;:  &ldquo;This cause to which the crisis of 1893 is directly and wholly attributable consisted of a widespread fear, both at home and abroad, that the United States would not be able to maintain a gold standard of payments.  <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Tyranny of "General Welfare"</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>constitutional law</category><category>constitution</category><category>congress</category><category>Limited powers</category><category>Liberty</category><dc:date>2010-05-28T07:32:26-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/the_tyrany_of_general_welfare.php#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/the_tyrany_of_general_welfare.php#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In arguing for the establishment of the First Bank of the United States, Hamilton said, &ldquo;That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.&rdquo;
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hillsborough Transportation Tax - Part I</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Taxation</category><category>Economy</category><category>Economics</category><dc:date>2010-05-21T09:58:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/hillsborough__tax_increase.php#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/hillsborough__tax_increase.php#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference&mdash;the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It's the Young Republicans, Stupid!</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>Young Republicans</category><category>conservatism</category><dc:date>2010-05-14T12:23:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/dd82d5fa27c879de6fce4430967344ae-2.php#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/dd82d5fa27c879de6fce4430967344ae-2.php#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Take a look at TBYR on the web and you will know something is going on, and all of us over-the-hill, washed up political types can just stand in awe of this younger crowd. 
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Panic of 1893</title><dc:creator>Johnnie Byrd</dc:creator><category>spending</category><category>conservatism</category><category>Economy</category><dc:date>2010-03-31T22:17:10-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/panic_of_1893.php#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.johnniebyrd.com/political_blog_files/panic_of_1893.php#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Far too many of America&rsquo;s people now look to the federal government to provide everything from food, housing,  education, and business bailouts to the more disturbing  trends including vast increases in the federal employment rolls, government-run health care and insurance delivery, causing a dependence on the government rather than a dependence on individual family units to solve problems.  <div class="feedflare">
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