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and one of his monologues Rush Limbaugh said that the Mayflower compact was the first government in the new world and it was communism. The next year the "compact" was rescinded because people were starving. No one wanted to work so someone else could eat the fruit of their labor.
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âThanksgiving, in truth, my friends, is âa devout expression of gratitudeâ to God for their survival, which depending on a whole lot of things after they arrived â a whole lot of things besides assistance by the Indians. âHere is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into,â the Mayflower Compact, âwith their merchant-sponsors in LondonâŚâ They had no money. They had to have people help them here.
âThe original contract ⌠called for everything they produced to go into a common store,â a common account, âand each member of the community was entitled to one common share.â In other words, everybody got the same as everyone else. Thatâs the way it was set up. It was fairness and it was equality. âAll of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community,â not to the people personally. âThey were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared⌠Nobody owned anything.
âThey just had a share in it. It was a commune,â pure and simple. âIt was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the â60s and â70s out in California â and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that thisâ wasnât working. This was collectivism. Nobody had any more than anybody else, nobody had any less, but that did not lead to prosperity. It never does.
So after a while, realizing that there was nothing but stagnation going on, âBradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage,â and whatever they produced was theirs â and, in an early fashion, this unleashed âthe power of the marketplace. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didnât work!â You know why it didnât work?
When everybody was entitled to the same you have slackers. Slackers didnât do their share, they didnât contribute their share, but they got the same amount as everybody else. It led to recriminations and jealousies and anger. Bradford had to change it, and he did. âWhat BradfordâŚâ Itâs all in his journal. âWhat Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation,â i.e., keep a majority of what they produced or earned.
âBut while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years â trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it â the Pilgrimsâ learned in less than a year that it was a failure. âWhat Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchildâs history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.â He wrote, ââThe experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry yearsâŚthat by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing â as if they were wiser than God. âŚ
ââFor this community was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and serviceâ didnât. They waited. They didnât want to produce for other menâs wives and children what other men should have been providing, and eventually this âwas thought injustice.â Why should you work for other people when you canât work for yourself?
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/11/21/the-true-story-of-thanksgiving-2/