Thanksgiving in the words of The Doctor of Democracy!
I have both books...
The Way Things Ought To Be and See, I Told You So
They are as timely for today as they were 20 years ago...
Thanks Rush...
Conservative America is thankful for you...
Tennessee Nana
20 year Rush listener (1990)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24950/24950-h/24950-h.htm
This is the project gutenberg reproduction of William Bradford’s “History of Plimoth Plantation”
Something that should be read by all...
There is a lot to be said for the Protestant work ethic, as well.
Protestants who colonized here, in fact believed that an idle mind was the devil’s workshop. AND of course, idle hands = idle mind.
If you were poor, you were lazy. If you were lazy, you were evil.
The stigma associated with poverty was NOT that you had old clothes and a hole in your roof...but that you were too lazy to provide for yourself.
However, being Christians, Protestants were charitable to people who were too ill or lame, orphaned, etc. who couldn’t care for themselves. I do NOT believe they ever intended that entire masses of the population OR any able bodied individuals should become a permanent burden to charitable Christians. THAT would be (and IS) theft.
I am certain this is YET a fair and functional concept.
Boy, just imagine if the first Thanksgiving were being held today? The Pilgrims would be sitting down with the Indians for keno.