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This week we celebrate Thanksgiving, a time of plenty and abundance after the harshness of life in the New World had killed off many of the original Pilgrims. What turned their plight into the bounty that this holiday celebrates?

When the Pilgrims came aboard the Mayflower to sail to the New World, there were requirements to be adhered to, namely that "all profits and benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means" were to be placed into the "common stock" of the colony and that "all such persons as are of this colony are to have their provisions out of the common stock."

This contract they agreed to was nothing more than Karl Marx's maxim of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." In other words, the Plymouth Colony was founded on the tenets of socialism and was nearly destroyed.

William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, found his wisdom in the word of God. It was there he found the principles of a free market society and he decided to implement them. He did as the Hebrews did when they entered the Promised Land -- he divided the land and gave each household a parcel which they could use to produce their food. They could keep it or trade it as they saw fit. In fact, after that change from common ownership to private ownership of land, so much was harvested that they were actually able to export corn.

Between this private ownership of land and the help of the Indians in crop management, the first feast of plenty was held with the colonists and Indians in attendance, which to this day is celebrated as our holiday of Thanksgiving.

Perhaps as we sit with our families this Thanksgiving week, we should give thoughtful pause to the founding of Plymouth Colony and how a change in the mode of governance made the firm establishment of that colony possible, which led to the republic we call the United States. We Americans should think carefully before deciding to fully commit to embarking on a social experiment that has caused more death and pain throughout the ages than any other.

For if insanity can be defined as doing something over and over again, but expecting a different result, then we Americans are definitely ready for the loony bin. Socialism didn't work in 1623, and it won't work now.

That is the message of Thanksgiving in 2012.

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The Editor
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