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  • Thanksgiving and socialism

    We learned this in homeschool through Abeka. Damn sure never heard this stuff at the publix indoctrination system...

    ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

    In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with “corruption,” and with “confusion and discontent.” The crops were small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable.”

    In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, “all had their hungry bellies filled,” but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first “Thanksgiving” was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
    Boris- "He's famous, has picture on three dollar bill!"

    Rocky- "Wow! I've never even seen a three dollar bill!"

    Boris- "Is it my fault you're poor?"

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    found this as well:



    The Wikipedia page is rather sparse on some of the details, as are many other Internet resources. But William Bradford's diary, the Governor, was not sparse in detail at all. The original bargain in the Compact was that the land was all to be in trust of the Colony, owned in common, and every person was accorded a share of common production of the colony. All were expected to participate in improving and producing upon it. If this sounds like socialism that's because it is; one is entitled merely by being, rather than only by doing, and the two are not coupled together in that if one produces less -- or nothing at all -- they are still entitled to their "fair share."

    As it turns out men did not wish to work to pay for another man's family when the other refused or was slower, whether intentionally or not, or simply had more mouths in his home than the other. The outcome was that those who were most-industrious and capable had no reason to excel as they received no additional reward for it. Fully half of the colonists died during the first winter from starvation and disease as a direct result of flagging productivity and the inability of the colony to feed itself.

    Facing near-certain extinction if another year went by under this scheme Bradford tore up that deal and instead accorded each remaining colonist an equal slice of the land to do with as they wished, and deemed that the production from said land and each Colonist's effort was their property rather than being owned collectively by the whole. Productivity wildly increased, the colony stabilized and grew, the colonists were rapidly able to retire their debt to the merchants across the ocean who had financed the crossing and soon attracted more immigrants forming a great migration from England.
    Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!

    Guns and gear are cool, but bandages stop the bleeding!

    ATTENTION: No trees or animals were harmed in any way in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were really ticked off!

    NO 10-289!

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    • #3
      This is the story of how socialism failed for the pilgrims, and why it still fails today. While not always pretty, capitalism was key to the pilgrims' survival and growth.

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