Call To Action - Join the Pickens Plan

The more and more I read information about The Pickens Plan, the more I think it is a really good idea. At this point, T. Boone Pickens is one of a very few, highly publicized individuals who are actually actively promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. He takes a completely neutral stand on politics, as far as I can tell, in his approach to promoting his plan.

If you think about it, at this point are there any better alternatives? Not really. In the current state of economics in America, his plan would benefit immensely.

Please, take a moment of your time and navigate over to http://www.pickensplan.com, click on the heading "ThePledge" and then click on the link "Click here to email Congress now". The form will auto-populate, based on your registration information, your Congressional representatives contact information and will generate a letter to them. All you have to do is take a minute of your time. After you've completed ThePledge, please forward it to as many people as you can. The more registered pledgers that he has, the louder we speak and the easier it will be for Congress to "hear" our cry!

Thanks for your consideration and effort.

--Ken

The FairTax Act

In researching everyone's take on the horribly miscalculated tax rebate plan for the $85 billion to bailout AIG, I ran across something that I think really needs to be considered.....The FairTax Act. This plan actually makes LOTS of sense and could possibly end a fair percentage of the corruptness which revolves around Federal taxation. Keep your entire paycheck and only pay taxes for the items that you purchase. A plan like this would allow the penny pinchers to invest the money that they would normally spend in income taxes. Not everyone has the willpower to due this, but those that do could definitely come out ahead and it could possibly increase small business development.

Of course, I definitely need to research this more, but wanted to mention it to those of you interested in alternatives to our current situation.