‘/’The Liberty and Prosperity Plan A Modern Appeal for Unity, Renewal, and American Integrity

By a Retired State Worker, Grandmother, and Concerned American

Preface: A Letter to the American People

To my fellow Americans,

I write not as a politician or public figure, but as a citizen—one who has worked quietly in state service, raised a family, paid taxes, and watched the nation I love begin to unravel. I write because I see us losing trust—in each other, in our government, internationally, and in the very principles that once united us. We are weary, and rightfully so. But we are not helpless.

This plan is not a campaign. It is not a protest. It is a proposal born from deep reflection and civic conscience. It is a call to reclaim the foundational ideals of liberty and justice for all, without cynicism or extremism.

We need a path forward that honors both the wisdom of our Constitution and the evolving needs of a 21st-century people. This is a middle path—not a compromise of values, but a convergence of them. The Liberty and Prosperity Plan is my contribution to that path. I hope you will consider it.

With respect and resolve,

—A Concerned American Grandmother

Part I – A Nation Divided, A People Disheartened

Much of the division we see today is rooted in long-standing systems of dominance that were never fully dismantled—only rebranded. Patriarchy, fundamentalism, and white supremacy continue to exert disproportionate influence over our policies, our institutions, and our national psyche. These forces do not uplift—they control. They narrow the scope of who is seen as fully human, fully capable, and fully deserving of dignity, liberty, and prosperity. Their survival depends on fear and hierarchy, not fairness or cooperation.

We must recognize that the destabilization of our democracy is not random—it is the direct result of these power structures resisting change. When a small segment of society insists on retaining cultural and political dominance, even at the expense of the greater whole, the nation itself suffers. True stability will not be found in nostalgia for unjust systems—it will come through courageous honesty, reconciliation, and inclusive renewal.

Our national discourse has fractured. Neighbors are pitted against one another. Media empires profit from outrage. Trust in public institutions has eroded, and truth itself often feels out of reach. Many Americans—regardless of party—feel abandoned by the very systems meant to serve them.

This disillusionment is not accidental. It is the byproduct of decades of policy captured by corporate interests, a political class more concerned with reelection than representation, and media narratives designed to divide.

But division is not destiny. Americans across the political spectrum still value fairness, safety, dignity, and opportunity. We must restore a shared commitment to the public good, not through slogans, but through tangible change.

Part II – The Forgotten Promise: Liberty and Justice for All

A recent and urgent challenge to this promise is the effort known as Project 2025, advanced by the Heritage Foundation. This agenda, now being implemented by the current presidential administration, seeks to impose a narrow, fundamentalist Christian worldview upon all Americans. It operates under the incorrect assumption that the United States was founded as a purely Christian nation.

While some of our founders were Christian, the two most influential architects of the American experiment—Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson—were Deists. Among the Christians were Quakers, who emphasized peace and equality, and even one Catholic. None of these individuals would have supported a theocracy. Our Constitution, in Article III, explicitly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Efforts like Project 2025 not only violate this founding principle, they threaten to entrench religious doctrine into civil law, disenfranchising those who hold different beliefs and eroding the secular integrity of our government. The Liberty and Prosperity Plan rejects this regression and calls instead for a reaffirmation of true religious freedom: where faith is personal, not political—and where no one belief system dictates the rights of all.

Our founding documents proclaimed a revolutionary truth: that liberty and justice are rights endowed to all—not just the wealthy, not just the powerful, not just the well-connected.

Our 3-branch Federal Government that ensured accountability among all 3 branches is currently being dismantled by people in the Executive branch.  This is destabilization and brings us closer to the monarchy that our forefathers fought and died to resist – because they wanted to ensure liberty and pursuit of happiness for their families and for future generations.

But in the nearly 250 ensuing years, the US has drifted far from that promise. Wealth inequality has skyrocketed. Communities are poisoned by environmental neglect. The health of our democracy suffers under gerrymandering, disinformation, governmental regulatory agencies headed by corporate personnel and congress inundated with corporate lobbying.

This is not about returning to an idealized past. It is about boldly moving forward—guided by our founding principles, yet unafraid to modernize them to benefit both the present workforce and future generations.

Part III – The Liberty and Prosperity Plan

This effort made to right what recently has been happening is based upon a premise that we are all “equal”.  The Declaration famously states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  To be clear, the word “men” in that Declaration especially at this time, refers to all humans, despite gender or race.  

Of course, it is clearly observable that each person differs from everyone else with abilities, talents, motivations, ambitions, likes and dislikes, etc.  And therein lies the beauty  and efficacy of humanity as a whole – we each gravitate towards a different path, thereby making a whole socio-economic system that works.  To be sure, God loves each and every one of us – His/Her children – the same and that is the equality spoken of so long ago.

When several people band together to form a business, or corporation, if that corporation is given the same rights as people, then those in the corporation have double or more power or influence over our Federal Government.

Corporate Rights and Tax Justice: Restoring the Balance

In our founding vision, the United States was designed to serve and be led by people—not by corporations. Yet over time, a series of legal decisions have granted corporations rights originally intended only for individual citizens. This shift has created a profound imbalance in our democracy.

How Corporations Gained Rights Meant for People

In the early years of U.S. law, corporations were treated strictly as legal instruments—artificial persons created by the states to serve the public good. They could enter contracts, own property, or be sued, but had no claim to the rights reserved for human beings.

That began to change in the late 19th and 20th centuries. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886), a Supreme Court headnote (not the ruling itself) suggested that corporations were protected under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Later, Buckley v. Valeo (1976) equated money with free speech, giving political influence to wealth. Then in Citizens United v. FEC (2010), the Court ruled that corporations and unions could spend unlimited funds on political advocacy, asserting that they were associations of people entitled to First Amendment protections.

These decisions steadily transformed corporations from limited legal tools into full participants in political discourse—entities that now influence elections, shape legislation, and steer public opinion. This expansion of rights, capped by Citizens United v. FEC (2010), gave corporations the ability to spend unlimited funds on political advocacy under the guise of free speech—equating financial power with constitutional voice.

This elevation of corporations to the status of “people” has resulted in a dangerous concentration of political and economic power. The executives and board members who control these entities already enjoy their full rights as citizens, yet they also speak and act through a powerful legal construct, giving them double or triple the influence of ordinary Americans. This is not equality—it is distortion.

Even worse, while corporations claim the privileges of citizenship, they often shirk its responsibilities. The corporate tax rate is routinely lower than the effective tax rates of many middle-class Americans. In addition, corporations are given access to subsidies, loopholes, and tax shelters that allow them to pay little or no taxes at all. This unjust system rewards accumulation over contribution.

We must ask: if a corporation insists on being treated like a person under the law, shouldn’t it pay taxes like one? Alternatively, if corporations are to be treated as non-persons—simply as economic tools—they must relinquish their political rights. But then, another ethical question arises: if they relinquish rights as persons, should they be taxed at all?

This question invites a reevaluation of what role corporations are meant to serve. If they are tools of production and commerce—not citizens—then tax structures must reflect that distinction. A system built on fairness would tax corporations according to their impact: the infrastructure they rely on, the labor they benefit from, the environmental toll they exact, and the profits they extract. Meanwhile, those who lead corporations would bear the personal civic responsibility—not the corporation itself.

Therefore, to restore fairness, we propose new legislation in the form of constitutional amendment to:

• Remove corporate personhood as a basis for constitutional rights
• Establish clear tax responsibility based on corporate footprint and societal impact
• Assure that corporations, if taxed, do so proportionally to the public resources they utilize
• Create permanent safeguards so future legislation cannot quietly reverse these changes

This is not a punishment—it is a return to balance. It is the reaffirmation that real people, not paper entities, form the soul of our republic. By placing the rights of citizens above the privileges of corporations, we set the stage for a healthier democracy and a more just economy.

Mission Statement
To secure liberty and prosperity for all Americans by restoring civic trust, fostering economic justice, protecting natural and human resources, and realigning our national priorities toward peace, productivity, and whole-system integrity—at home and abroad.

Core Values and Strategic Objectives

Each of the following priorities includes both opportunities and challenges. We believe in engaging honestly with complexity so that solutions are rooted in reality, not idealism.

1. Civic Integrity and Transparent Governance

A functioning democracy depends on the trust of its people. Today, that trust is in jeopardy. Lobbyist influence, voter suppression tactics, and partisan gerrymandering have left many Americans feeling disenfranchised. To renew faith in government, we must prioritize transparency, fair access, and ethical regulations that protect public health and well-being. Voting must be secure and trustworthy—ensured by the use of paper ballots (including mail-in options), small but fair compensation for poll workers (similar to jury duty), and thorough independent audits of election results. Equally vital is the protection of a free and independent press. As journalist Walter Cronkite said, “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy.” Trusted public outlets like NPR and PBS exemplify the kind of journalism that upholds ethical standards and supports an informed citizenry.

Pluses:

• Reinforces public trust in democratic institutions and regulatory agencies
• Reduces corruption and increases voter engagement
• Restores checks and balances essential to the Constitutional edicts of a 3 branch system of federal governance.

Minuses:

• Implementation will face fierce resistance from those benefiting from the current system
• Voter regulations could be challenged in courts and politicized
• Changes in media programs may be met with skepticism from ideological factions

2. Economic Fairness and Local Prosperity

Corporate profits are rising, but working families are falling behind. The current system favors accumulation at the top while hollowing out the middle class. Every employee’s position and productivity is vital and essential to the corporate whole, otherwise there would not be a position or hiring for it.  Since every position is essential to corporate success and since our forefathers had the insight to include in our founding literature that “all people are created equal” then it is right to assure that all profits of every corporation be divided equally every year end or close of the accounting cycle.  The following strategy focuses on reshaping business incentives to ensure workers share in the success they help create.

1) make corporate pay regimes transparent so that workers can know exactly how they fit within the structure and all career paths available, and

2) flatten pay scales within corporations such that the Director can only receive 10 to 20 times the lowest worker’s wage or salary (as opposed to 300 times higher) and all other positions are fit within that structure, and

3)  Equally divide and distribute all profits at year end to workers and investors alike.

Pluses:

• Ensures working people share in corporate success
• Buoys every community by paying real living wages to all workers, revives small towns through local investment and job growth
• Makes the economy more resilient and rooted in dignity

Minuses:

• Corporations may push back or offshore operations to avoid new pay scales
• Short-term prices may rise as labor costs normalize
• Requires oversight and enforcement to prevent loopholes and token compliance

3. Environmental Restoration and Climate Resilience

Decades of extractive practices have led to eroded soils, crops with diminishing nutrition, polluted air and  waters, diminishing river and stream flows, rising global temperatures, and catastrophic wildfires. We face a stark choice: regenerate or decline. This approach focuses on restoring ecosystems and promoting natural climate resilience—while recognizing the financial constraints of the federal budget.

The federal government can act decisively by funding cost-effective preventive measures, such as firebreak creation, controlled burns, reforestation, and native species restoration. For example, proactive forestry maintenance in high-risk areas often costs a fraction of the billions required to fight and recover from catastrophic wildfires. A single large wildfire can cost $1–2 billion in damages, while preventive landscape management may cost less than one-tenth that amount annually across a region.

We also propose targeted investment in soil regeneration, local composting initiatives, and small-scale water retention projects, all of which can be implemented through community partnerships and existing USDA and EPA grant structures. These actions build long-term resilience and public health without ballooning the federal budget.

Pluses:

• Investment in regenerative agriculture, permaculture, forestry health works, clean energy, and conservation supports long-term sustainability, reduces catastrophic fires, and initiates nationwide health gains (by increasing soil fertility and plant nutrients which diminishes chronic disease, and enhances health spans.)
• Creates green jobs and reduces dependency on fossil fuels (e.g., solar, wind, biochar)
• Enhances national security through energy independence (e.g., less reliance on foreign oil)
• Re-greening landscapes restores local water cycles, increases rainfall in drought-prone regions, reduces storm severity and flash flooding, and cools urban and rural areas during extreme heat.

Minuses:

• Short-term job losses in traditional energy sectors require active retraining efforts (clean tech certifications, apprenticeship programs)
• Resistance from entrenched corporate interests may slow implementation, requiring a carrot-and-stick approach using smart tax reforms.

4. Peace and Accountability in Military Policy

The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, yet we attempt to police the entire globe through hundreds of military bases in foreign lands. This ambition has contributed heavily to our national debt and strained our ability to fund the very systems that ensure liberty and prosperity at home. It’s time to return to the basic principles our founders intended: self-defense, limited government overreach, and living within a budget that upholds the constitutional edicts of fairness, transparency, and peace.

America has maintained a global military presence far beyond our shores. While strength has its place, so does restraint. This vision reorients military priorities toward true national defense and global humanitarian service, reducing unnecessary entanglements.

We propose a reallocation of military resources away from global domination and toward national well-being. This includes withdrawing most U.S. troops stationed abroad, closing foreign military bases, and returning those properties to their host nations. Our military should be focused primarily on defending our borders and providing humanitarian aid in times of global crisis—not maintaining an empire.

If implemented, these changes could save over $100 billion annually—resources that can be invested in education, healthcare, infrastructure, debt reduction, and veterans’ support. This is not a retreat from leadership but a return to integrity. Strength need not be measured by presence, but by purpose.

Pluses:

• Repositions the military toward defense and humanitarian aid, aligning with global leadership values
• Reduces federal spending on war and shifts it toward domestic recovery
• Deters crony defense contracts and promotes efficiency

Minuses:

• Defense contractors and military-industrial lobbyists may resist cutbacks
• Transition must ensure active-duty personnel are not abandoned
• Allies may feel uncertain during strategic realignment without robust diplomatic outreach

5. Health, Housing, and Human Dignity

Millions of Americans lack access to clean air and water, healthful foodstuffs, safe and stable housing, and affordable, effective healthcare. This deprivation erodes the social fabric of the nation and undermines our collective prosperity. When human dignity is honored through equitable access to these fundamental needs, the entire nation thrives.

A critical starting point is housing. We propose legislation that prohibits corporations from acquiring single-family homes, duplexes, and triplexes for speculative investment. These residential properties should be divested and sold back into the hands of individuals and families, helping to correct artificial price inflation and restore affordability for younger generations seeking to build a stable life.

Our food system, too, must be addressed. The FDA should be restructured so that its leadership is composed of credentialed professionals with no ties to the corporate food industry. Preservatives, chemical taste enhancers, and other profit-driven additives must be reevaluated for their impact on public health. Many ingredients deemed acceptable in the U.S. are banned elsewhere in the world—an indictment of a regulatory system that prioritizes industry over well-being.

We also call for full transparency in the operations of corporate farms and livestock operations. Consumers deserve to know the levels of pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and herbicides in their food. It is no coincidence that Americans rank among the most overweight and chronically ill populations worldwide.

Additionally, we must liberate medical education from pharmaceutical industry influence. Physicians must be trained not only in prescribing medications, but in chiropractic care, nutritional science, and natural healing practices such as fasting and detoxification. Medical education should return to its roots in holistic wellness and bodily autonomy—not be shaped by corporate interests profiting from lifelong prescriptions.

Pluses:

• Universal access to essential needs boosts productivity and national morale
• Reduces homelessness and crime through stable housing and mental health care
• Shifts national identity toward care and mutual support

Minuses:

• Upfront investment relinquishment is substantial and politically controversial
• Risk of bureaucratic inefficiency if not designed with accountability
• Requires a shift toward collective responsibility and shared prosperity, moving beyond hyper-individualism

6. Media Reform and Public Education

Public understanding is shaped by two great institutions: the media and our education system. When either becomes distorted by profit motives, censorship, or ideological agendas, democracy weakens.

Media monopolies and partisan echo chambers have flooded the public sphere with misinformation and fear. Likewise, our public school system often reflects outdated priorities, political pressures, and chronic underfunding. To build a just society, we must invest in both critical thinkers and fact-based journalism.

We need an education system that prepares students not only to meet the needs of a dynamic economy, but to engage meaningfully in a functioning democracy—without burdening them with unsustainable debt. Tuition for public colleges, universities, and vocational programs should be significantly reduced or eliminated. Student loan repayment must be made manageable through income-based or community service-based forgiveness programs.

We propose that public broadcasting be strengthened and fully funded through independent, non-commercial means to protect its integrity. Educational curricula should be redesigned to emphasize civic literacy, environmental science, ethics, critical thinking, and media literacy—equipping students to discern truth in a complex information landscape.

We also advocate for a publicly available, open-source digital learning platform—free from commercial surveillance and algorithms—that gives people of all ages access to diverse, high-quality educational resources.

Pluses:

• Strengthens democratic discourse through fact-based news and civic education
• Encourages lifelong learning and informed citizenship
• Reduces ideological extremism through shared understanding

Minuses:

• Funding media and education reform may be politically polarizing
• Curriculum changes may face resistance from local or state officials
• Requires safeguards to prevent misuse or manipulation of public platforms

7. Personal Autonomy and Bodily Sovereignty

One of the most divisive issues in the United States today is abortion. At its core, this is not just a medical issue—it is a question of personal liberty, spiritual belief, and bodily sovereignty. In many states, the government has inserted itself into personal medical decisions, restricting what a woman or girl and her physician are legally allowed to consider or perform. These laws are often based on one particular interpretation of Christian doctrine—especially the belief that life begins at conception and that abortion is murder.

But not all Americans share this belief. The U.S. Constitution clearly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Laws rooted in specific religious doctrines violate this founding principle and unjustly impose one worldview over others.

From a spiritual perspective informed by esoteric teachings and personal study, life as a soul exists beyond physical birth. Many believe, as expressed through sources like Kryon (channeled by Lee Carroll) or teachings remembered through hypnosis research by Dolores Cannon, that a soul enters the human fetus during or just before birth—not at conception. While a fetus is certainly alive biologically, it is also reliant upon and connected to the mother, almost parasitically, for survival. Gratitude to one’s mother for carrying life to birth is both profound and appropriate—but it must not justify legally mandated childbirth under all circumstances.

Forcing a woman or girl to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term—especially in cases of rape, incest, or coercion—is an act of violence that compounds trauma. Even when adoption is chosen, the emotional toll of severing the mother-infant bond can haunt both mother and child for life.

This policy recognizes that every girl and woman must retain complete sovereignty over her own body. Medical choices must be made privately between a patient and her physician, free from government interference. Reproductive freedom is not only a matter of health—it is a matter of liberty and justice.

Pluses:

• Respects personal belief systems and spiritual diversity
• Reduces government intrusion in deeply personal medical decisions
• Upholds constitutional protections against religious law

Minuses:

• Will face intense resistance from religious groups and certain state legislatures
• Public discourse may be further polarized in the short term
• Requires national legal protections and possibly federal legislation to ensure equal rights

Part V – A Vision for the Future: Inclusion and Peace

As we move through this era of great upheaval, it’s easy to feel burdened by fear, division, and uncertainty. Yet the transformation underway is not only political or economic—it is human. We are witnessing the slow collapse of systems built on fear and control, and the quiet emergence of a new paradigm grounded in cooperation, integrity, and shared dignity.

This vision calls us to release the outdated frameworks of domination and exclusion and to build systems that reflect the highest aspirations of our humanity: fairness, creativity, peace, and respect for all life. When people co-create with mutual trust and inclusivity, the outcomes are more just, sustainable, and enduring.

The future we are co-creating includes:

• Government rooted in wisdom, nationwide fairness, and public service
• Economics centered on sustainability, equity, and shared prosperity
• Education that empowers the whole person—both economically and intellectually
• Medicine that integrates diverse sciences and honors the body’s innate resilience
• Communities built on inclusion, creativity, and mutual uplift—rising together like a tide that lifts all boats, including both individuals and ethical businesses

This plan is more than a reform—it is a framework for national renewal. By rejecting fear, choosing unity over division, and embracing cooperation over exploitation, we step into a new era of collective well-being—one that honors the enduring promise of liberty and prosperity for all. The future belongs to all of us.

Closing Words

The Liberty and Prosperity Plan is not a partisan manifesto—it is a living document rooted in truth, conscience, and the enduring promise of the United States of America.

This plan will evolve, as all living things must. But let it serve as a beginning, a lighthouse for those who feel adrift, a framework for those ready to rebuild, and a declaration of renewal for anyone who believes the American spirit can rise again—stronger, kinder, and more just than before.