Posted on 11/22/2018 2:06:17 AM PST by a little elbow grease
When we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I will give thanks for property rights.
Property rights allow each individual or family to do what we want with our small piece of the world without having to answer to the whole community.
On Thanksgiving, we'll probably be told to think of America as one big family -- and for some people, government is the head of that family. That idea warms the hearts of America's new "democratic socialists." But thinking like that nearly destroyed this nation before it began.
The Pilgrims at Plymouth didn't share a feast with Indians after arriving in 1620 because America was so filled with bounty.
Instead, the Pilgrims nearly starved to death. They'd tried to farm collectively -- the entire community owning all the land and sharing everything, like socialists. Gov. William Bradford wrote, "By the spring, our food stores were used up and people grew weak and thin. Some swelled with hunger."
Then, writes Bradford, "After much debate (I) assigned each family a parcel of land... (T)his had very good success, because it made every hand industrious."
Crop production increased because workers reaped direct benefits of their own effort. They stopped hoping someone else would do the hard work.
It's not that the Pilgrims were lazy or weak. They'd risked their lives to cross an ocean to try to build a community from scratch. But in tiny, often imperceptible ways, we each do a less efficient job, and pay less attention to the task at hand, if we think the whole community is responsible for that task.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
He told the story yesterday on his show.
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Here's wishing everyone a gentle and meaningful Thanksgiving.
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From a few years ago here: The Real Story of Thanksgiving (Rush Limbaugh) …… November 21, 2006 |
thanks for this.
There you have it. The ONLY socialist agenda I ever heard that worked were the Kibitzes in Israel.
And even then i think it was short lived.
But why not just go shoot a deer or some wild animal that I thought were so abundant in America at the time?
If it’s a stupid question so be it :)
At least i’ll have an answer and won’t have to ask it again :)
I second the stupid question!
Stamp out ignorance one question at a time.
It does seem strange that nobody could shoot or trap well enough to escape starvation.
Do we still have a huge backlog of cheese?We should invite the Venezuelan people to a feast!
Cheese may not be a balanced diet, but when there’s nothing else in the pantry, it might seem like a feast.
Maybe we could use less gasohol, and provide some corn with it too!
Unless they were the equivalent of what we call city folks today, but i would imagine some who made the trip had some kind of hunting skills.
Maybe i am wrong in my assumption that there would have been many animals to kill and eat where they landed.
I’m terrible with history.
The Pilgrims were also contracted to return gain to their secular sponsors. This was not a pure purposed religious mission. It was more a humanly calculated trade-off. The account also didn’t say that bartering and sharing ceased. But the scripture warned “be owing nothing to any man, except the ongoing debt of love.” Property was a necessary concept in order to be able to sensibly offer something before the love of God.
If we do not watch it, we shall once again be kneeling at the altar of self-thanks giving, and once again say “huh? what’s that? oh, that annoying wind, I am glad when it goes away” when the Holy Spirit breezes through.
Heh, heh, a `kibitzer’ is someone who looks over the shoulder of a card player and offers unsolicited advice.
The kibbutzim of Israel are collective farms & other enterprises, so collectivized that kibbutzniks never marry within the kibbutz, regarding each other as siblings even though unrelated. Turnover is high as many kibbutzniks seek a freer life elsewhere in Israel.
lol
thanks for the correction!!
Just remember communism doesn’t work.
How could it?!?
I have a Dodge Challenger and LOVE it, but i’m still holding out hope for a Shelby one day or GT. :)
I always HATED when other workers didn’t work nearly as hard as me but got paid the same.
I would go mad on a commune and run screaming from insanity after a week.
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I think you meant "kibbutzes" in Israel
"Kibbitz" is a verb, not to be confused with kibbutz. To kibbitz means to stand around talking and making wisecracks.....
Happy Thanksgiving
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LOL ..... it's a feast with some good pasta and broccoli.
;-)
Well maybe they made wisecracks on the Kibbutz :)
thanks for correcting me. Would hate to misspell it again
Though i’m not quite sure where I would use the word Kibbutz again.
Likely here lol
No one has rights to their bought and paid for property. Certainly not when having to set aside 4 months of income to pay the county taxes. If you want to do anything, you have to get permission and a government permit. Then, one day, they change the laws so you can no longer have x,y,z on your property. Can’t have a water well or septic without someone coming around to inspect or take away your rights to have water and orders you to install low water gizmos in your toilet and shower. Doesn’t matter that you use more water flushing and reflushing again, just so it’s a low water toilet. Doesn’t matter to them that you have pay to move the septic to 3 streets over and buy new property (that they can tax you for). No, there’s no such thing as a right to your own property.
In England of that time only the Gentry or Nobility hunted. Unless you were a poacher and the Separatists were God-fearing people.
And remember they had spent a great deal of Holland where they had worked in the mills so no hunting there.
None of the Strangers would have been hunters either.
While they probably would have known how to trap rabbits, that was allowed with the landlords permission, they would have been used to using dogs. No dogs on the Mayflower.
And the guns they brought were not rifles for hunting but muskets for self defense.
They would have learned how to hunt with the bow later but in the beginning it would have not been a sure way of getting calories.
The gun explanation answers my biggest concern.
Thank you
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