Most of us here in the U.S. are thankful we live here. Sure, there are problems. But judging from the size of the mobs clamoring to get in and become productive residents, those problems can't be that bad.
So, thank you fellow citizens, for helping make this country so great!
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1:27 PM 11/27/2019
Update: John Stossel reminds us what made the pilgrims, after a rocky start, so thankful. John Stossel: Thanksgiving – What the pilgrims knew about socialism and private property. Relevant excerpt:
Each member of the community professed a desire to labor together, on behalf of the whole settlement. In other words: socialism.
But when they tried that, the Pilgrims almost starved. Their collective farming -- the whole community deciding when and how much to plant, when to harvest, who would do the work -- was an inefficient disaster.
“By the spring,” Pilgrim leader William Bradford wrote in his diary, “our food stores were used up and people grew weak and thin. Some swelled with hunger… So they began to think how ... they might not still thus languish in misery.”
His answer: divide the commune into parcels and assign each Pilgrim family its own property. As Bradford put it, they “set corn every man for his own particular. ... Assigned every family a parcel of land.” ...
The Pilgrims’ simple change to private ownership, wrote Bradford, “made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.” Soon they had so much plenty that they could share food with the natives.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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