Happy Thanksgiving-What To Learn From The Pilgrims

Obama should have taken a break from the sermons of  Jeremiah Wright and spent less time reading Karl Marx.  Instead he should have been boning up on his history.  The Pilgrim lesson could have saved all Americans from the deluded effort Obama is embarking on (and it probably would have if it was taught in school).  It seems that, way back when, the Pilgrims tried what Obama is trying to pack down on the American people......communism.

Many don't know this, but the original Pilgrim experiment is strikingly familiar to the current "change" taking place in America.  But how could the Pilgrims shed any light on the matters of the day?  Well it seems that the original Pilgrim colony took a little gamble with communism.  They initially believed that the scant resources of the colony should be shared commonly along with the products of their efforts.  If you are reading this blog, you  probably already know what happens next, but if you don't....this is it in a nutshell.

After a season, the common production was not adequate to meet the needs of the entire colony.  When men found they could get the same amount of resources spending less time in the field, that is precisely what happened.  Back then it was called malingering, today it is called generational welfare and it's a business for some.  Illness and injury also strained the fledgling Pilgrim system (shades of Obamacare)?  Thefts from the community storehouse occurred regularly, suspicions rose and the colony was nearly wiped out during the first vicious winter.  The colonists endured for two more years before implementing a plan of individual responsibility.  People would now be able to keep what they produced and sell any surpluses.

Pilgrim governor Bradford wrote:

The experience that was had in this commone course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Plato & other ancients, applauded by some of later times;—that ye taking away of properties, and bringing it in communitie into a commone wealth, would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.
For this communitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion & discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefite and comforte. For yet young men that were most able and fitte for labor & services did repine that they should spend their time & strength to worke for other men’s wives and children with out any recompense.

Things turned around for the colonists when they were set FREE to produce for themselves and others if they could.  But it doesn't end here.  They colonists were under a crushing debt.  It seems that their escape to the freedom of North America had been financed by a consortium back home.......at 45% per year.  It took decades to repay, but they did it because they were free and prosperous, but a whole generation suffered to pay that debt.  Pretty "right on" when looking at today isn't it? 

Our current president and his party are myopic.  They see the world the way they want it, but not how it is.  This stubborn adherence to failed doctrine is very dangerous and virtually assures us that we doomed to repeat history as long as they lead us.  We need to rid ourselves of them before it is too late. 

Have a great Thanksgiving!  Just remember a turkey on the table, is better than one in the Oval Office.