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  • The Phoenix Plan: A Blueprint for American Rebirth

    The Phoenix Plan: A Blueprint for American Rebirth

    Prioritize national strength, economic independence, and internal order.

    Core Principles

    • Competent Government: Before voting on any bill, members of Congress must have one week to read it and pass a test to prove they understand it.
    • “Fortress America” Economy: The plan aims for a self-reliant economy. This includes:
      • Taxes: Making current individual tax rates permanent while eliminating special-interest loopholes, the Child Tax Credit, and complex corporate taxes.
      • Trade and Investment: Using tariffs to protect critical industries and offering residency to foreigners who make multi-million dollar investments in the U.S.
      • Ending Corporate Crime: Forcing companies to be specific about how they use investor money. Seized assets from convicted executives and banks will fund their own prosecution and imprisonment.
      • Nationalizing Crypto: Making all private cryptocurrency transactions illegal. The entire crypto system will be seized and reserved as a financial weapon for the military to use only during a declared war.
      • Honest Money: Transitioning away from the Federal Reserve to a system where the U.S. Treasury issues debt-free money directly.
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  • The Debt is a Cancer, Not a Curve to Be Flattened

    The Debt is a Cancer, Not a Curve to Be Flattened

    The analogy comparing the national debt to the COVID-19 “flatten the curve” mantra is a profoundly misleading and dangerous simplification of the crisis we face. The comparison is particularly flawed when one recalls the data inconsistencies during the initial wave of COVID-19. In early 2020, many observers noted with suspicion that official data from sources like Johns Hopkins University showed a startlingly low number of recoveries in the United States. This data “weirdness,” born from the chaos of tracking a novel virus in real-time, highlights a key difference: the COVID-19 curve was a matter of incomplete, real-time data, while the national debt curve is a matter of precise, cumulative accounting.

    The national debt isn’t a virus that will simply “burn out” or be defeated by a short-term, emergency response. It is a chronic, metastasizing cancer on the body politic, the result of decades of policy decisions. Proposals for a “debt ceiling app” or other simple fixes are shortsighted political theater. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to raise the debt ceiling, rendering it more of a talking point than a genuine constraint.

    The real technological revolution that offers a path forward is not in financial gimmicks, but in artificial intelligence, LLMs, and robotics. Their promise is not magical “growth,” but something far more valuable: the ruthless elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. The potential for automation to overhaul the medical and insurance industries—the true drivers of our debt—is immense. Imagine humanoid robots, like Tesla’s Optimus, providing comprehensive elder care. These machines could handle everything from showering a grandparent to monitoring their vitals, ending the soul-crushing and financially ruinous nursing home industry. This isn’t science fiction; it is a necessary step to slash the costs that are bankrupting our nation.

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  • The Phoenix Blueprint: A Health Plan to Erase the National Debt

    The Phoenix Blueprint: A Health Plan to Erase the National Debt

    Our nation is on life support. A $37 trillion national debt is not a number; it is a mortal wound. At the heart of this fiscal cancer lies a bloated, failed healthcare system that acts as a conveyor belt to national bankruptcy. Tinkering is over.

    This is The Phoenix Mandate, a declaration of war on the debt that threatens to extinguish America. It is a national survival plan built on five pillars of strength, innovation, and absolute, non-negotiable accountability.

    Pillar 1: Forging the Resilient Citizen & The American Sovereignty Rider

    We will end the religion of constant, wasteful care by fostering a culture of health independence. A key part of this is embracing the Personal Health Revolution, led by devices like the Apple Watch, which put the power of a lab on your wrist.

    However, we recognize that the supply chain for these critical devices represents a dangerous vulnerability to our adversary, China. This is unacceptable.

    The American Sovereignty Rider: If any adversary threatens our access to the critical components for these devices, the President will immediately invoke the Defense Production Act. A national mandate will be issued to a new coalition of loyal American companies, led by the chip-making power of Intel and the advanced manufacturing of Corning. They will be directed to produce a “Sovereign Device”—a secure, American-made digital lifeline to guarantee every citizen access to essential health monitoring. We will not allow our national health to be held hostage.

    Pillar 2: Bringing Our Elders Home

    The modern nursing home is a moral and financial catastrophe. We will dismantle this cruel and inefficient model. The second pillar of the Phoenix Mandate is to empower our elders to age with dignity in their own homes through a technology-driven revolution in elder care, deploying telepresence robots, smart home safety nets, and an on-demand system of human care that provides better results at a fraction of the cost.

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  • Actionable Initiatives for NASA Budget Cuts

    AI Data Mining Core (Oracle): Establish an AI center to intensively mine consolidated historical astronomical datasets (all wavelengths). Focus: Find previously missed threat precursors (SNe variability, solar patterns, NEO behavior) and predictive anomalies.

    AI Ground Observation Network (Argus): Network existing/low-cost ground telescopes (university, amateur) using AI for optimized scheduling and real-time analysis. Fund essential connectivity/automation upgrades. Focus: Top Priority: NEO detection & rapid orbit confirmation. Also, targeted monitoring of AI-flagged threats (solar activity, SNe candidates) and rapid transient response.

    Minimalist SmallSat Monitors (Styx): Design and deploy narrowly focused, ultra-low-cost CubeSats for critical space-based data unobtainable from the ground. Focus: Prioritize essential solar monitoring (vector magnetograms for flare precursors), potentially adding basic transient detection (X-ray/gamma-ray flash alerts).

    AI Predictive Simulation Hub (Delphi): Utilize high-performance computing for AI-accelerated simulations of threat phenomena physics. Focus:Model solar flare initiation, SNe/GRB mechanisms, and NEO dynamics to identify critical warning thresholds and improve risk assessment.

    Originally Posted on 𝕏 on April 12, 2025

    David Gross

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