Authentic Conservative

The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
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http://www.aier.org/research/briefs/819-the-real-meaning-of-thanksgiving...

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 02:20 PM  

Authentic Conservative

The faith in God that the pilgrims exhibited on embarkation from the old world became thankfulness to the same God on disembarkation in the New World.
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This is the origin of the day of Thanksgiving we celebrate this week. We give thanks, not merely to one another, or to some undefined spiritual force, but to God.
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It doesn't’t mean we’re all Christians. It means we’re Americans; lucky citizens of a nation uniquely rooted in faith in our Creator.
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Tomorrow We Give Thanks to the God of Washington and Lincoln
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To whom will we give thanks tomorrow?
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To the God whom George Washington, in the first national Thanksgiving Day proclamation in 1789, called on all Americans to “unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.”
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To the God to whom Abraham Lincoln looked in the midst of the Civil War as he made Thanksgiving an annual national holiday in 1863:
“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”
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Tomorrow we give thanks to the Creator who is the source of our sovereignty.
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We pause in gratitude to He who has endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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And just as no government has granted these rights, no government can legitimately take them away.
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This is the freedom the pilgrims prayed for, Washington fought for and Lincoln stood for.
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As important as it is to give thanks tomorrow is to remember, as Americans have before us, to whom we give thanks.
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May you and your family have a happy, healthy and blessed Thanksgiving.
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Newt Gingrich

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 08:10 PM  

Authentic Conservative

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs.
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Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
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The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness," destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. "There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 08:04 PM  

Authentic Conservative

Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself? What's the point?
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The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property.
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Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result?
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'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.
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Bradford doesn't sound like much of a... liberal Democrat, "does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.
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"Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph's suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the 'seven years of plenty' and the 'Earth brought forth in heaps.' (Gen. 41:47)
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In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 07:55 PM  

Authentic Conservative

In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London.
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And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'"
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Is this lesson being taught to your kids today -- and if it isn't, why not? Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the pilgrim experience?
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So in essence there was, thanks to the Indians, because they taught us how to skin beavers and how to plant corn when we arrived, but the real Thanksgiving was thanking the Lord for guidance and plenty -- and once they reformed their system and got rid of the communal bottle and started what was essentially free market capitalism, they produced more than they could possibly consume, and they invited the Indians to dinner, and voila, we got Thanksgiving, and that's what it was: inviting the Indians to dinner and giving thanks for all the plenty is the true story of Thanksgiving.
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The problem with the world is not too few resources. The problem with the world is an insufficient distribution of capitalism.
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Thanks Rush!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 07:54 PM  

PaulN

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS. TO OUR MAGNIFICENT SEALS "TAKE NO PRISONERS"!!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 04:01 PM