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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Everyone seems to forget American history. When the Pilgrims first landed on the Massachusetts coastline, their first societal experiment was a communal one. No private property. Block houses where everyone lives. Crops were planted, tended, and doled out communally. Basically, it was a collectivist’s wet dream, and you cannot get a more homogenized community, perhaps, than the first sect of dissenters who first left England for Holland and then Holland for the New World so they could practice their particular form of religion.


No, I remember the story about what the Pilgrims first did. But that has nothing to do with the Dauphin experiment. It wasn’t an experiment in communalism it was an experiment in basic income support.


38 posted on 11/09/2012 10:39:29 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen; Responsibility2nd
It wasn’t an experiment in communalism it was an experiment in basic income support.

"Basic income support" is communism. Where the hell do you think the money comes from to provide that basic income support UNLESS you take from those who "have" and give to those in "need"? In your world, does money grow on trees?

"Basic income support" is anathema to those who hold anything but progressive political principles. And I'm saying that as a libertarian . . . someone who somebody like Responsibility2nd detests.

Honestly, dude, that dog don't hunt. Don't try to pass it off here as an idea worthy of consideration.

39 posted on 11/09/2012 11:14:48 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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