The Pilgrims were Debt Slaves.

The Financial Survival Network ^ | 11-25-11 | Kerry Lutz

[appeal2]

That's right, the Pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower were debt slaves. The London Company, which financed the trip and the establishment of the Plymouth Colony, was a publicly owned business that insisted that the Pilgrims live and work in a communal or collectivist group, under the guise of lowering costs and speeding up repayment. Unfortunately, then as now, socialist/collectivist endeavors don't work out very well. That's because when it's "All for One and One For All," society breaks down and everyone winds up broke and starving. In the 1600's, economic thought was not very well developed and capitalism was in its infancy. Later in the 1700's Adam Smith explained many economic laws that laid the ground work for future economic prosperity on a grand scale. But these lessons are periodically forgotten and must be relearned through bitter experience, such as now. Which is why, when Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted, "Obama to fail," this did not serve capitalism. The correct statement would have been, "Obama's economy must fail, it is economic law!"

If a group of pious, religious fanatics couldn't devise a system whereby all it's members served the greater good, than can it possibly be done by anyone? Listen to the commentary at Listen to Report

[appeal2]

Further clarification on the history of Thanksgiving.

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Thanks

[RJS1950]

One fact about the Mayflower Compact is that not all of those who came over on the Mayflower were tied completely to the repayment scheme nor were they all “Pilgrims”. My 9th great granfather was a signer to the Compact and came over on the Mayflower as an administrator for the King and the Company. While he was a religious man, he was also a practical and stubborn person who was probably instrumental in eventually converting from the socialist system they had set up. He had previously sailed as a colonial administrator and deacon on one of the three ships that founded the Jamestown colony and was known there for raising hell with authority during the time he spent there. He was also one of the negotiators with the local tribes and is said to have hosted the local indian chief when the negotiations with the Wampanag tribe was initiated. There is a lot more to the history of the first Thanksgiving than the mythology would lead one to believe.

[JerseyanExile]

That is very true. Of the passengers of the Mayflower, less then half were the Brownist dissenters we currently call the Pilgrims.

[Oatka]

I read that sometime later, the indentured servants demanded that they not be fed lobster more than three times a week. Evidently after every storm, you could hit the beach and pick up baskets full - even in calm times they were all over the place.

How times change! :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/25/2011. Thanks appeal2.