Posted by
preservefreedom on Friday, November 21, 2008 8:03:07 PM
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William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.
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The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.
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Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively.
Let's pray that we will have another William Bradford come along in 2012 to lead us out of the "disastrous" results of our obvious paradigm shift to socialism. Perhaps another Ronald Reagan to lead us away from the "disastrous" Carter administration.
History does not lie. Socialism has never worked, yet Obama and the Libs continue to move in that direction. The government educated masses are too ignorant to recognize this because they have never been taught our free enterprise system.
Capitalism is a timed tested success. No, capitalism does not guarantee everyone success. It does, however, give everyone the opportunity to succeed. Socialism guarantees failure to everyone.