Posted on 11/23/2023 6:18:39 AM PST by Carriage Hill
Just before his passing, Rush Limbaugh delivers one of the most accurate and compelling accounts of the true Thanksgiving story that you've ever heard... Be grateful.
Did you know they were socialists with a central bank and tons of debt?
“The first winter in the new world was an act of survival that you and I cannot possibly relate to or understand.
Of paramount importance to [the Pilgrims] was living freely and worshiping God according to the dictates of their own conscience and their own beliefs. That’s what they were denied the freedom to do in England.
One of the most important legacies of the early settlers is that they experimented with socialism in the 1620’s and it did not work. Private property rights, personal responsibility saved the Plymouth colony from extinction and laid the economic foundation for the free and prosperous nation that we all enjoy today.”
-Rush Limbaugh
Thanks for posting!
As your link shows, Rush is available to listen to 24x7 via his archives. So much of his commentary is applicable today.
He’s always good to listen to now, as he was in life.
So many shows at the InterNet Archives, too...
https://archive.org/details/rush-limbaugh-radio-show?sort=date
Always listened to el Rushbo on the thanksgiving trip. Sure do miss him.
Rush is the reason I took the time to read William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation. It’s just like Rush described it.
The great Rush Limbaugh told facts that could not be denied and the left hated him for it.
The way things are now his proof of his data.
Paramount importance
Rush was certainly one of the things I was genuinely thankful for, for so long. I’m still thankful for the memories and lessons he gave us, but ... gone way, way too soon.
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So true.
Me also.
His “see, I told you so...” moments were great, and funny as liberal heads exploded all over the globe.
Agree he was the best nobody can match he could expose all the dirty tricks the left use.
What we’ve all been taught is a part of the history: The Pilgrims came, they almost starved, the Indians taught them how to survive, and they had a big feast. All true. But it’s the tip of the iceberg.
The Puritans were being persecuted in Britain by the Church of England. They decided to get out. They first went to the Netherlands. After several years there, they decided to go to the New World for religious liberty.
They found some sponsors for their journey, who made William Bradford, their leader, sign a contract. It provided that every Pilgrim would get one share in a common store and they would all work for the community. (They would own nothing and be happy.)
They arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Between the journey and that harsh first winter, about 44 of the original 100 settlers died. Including Governor Bradford’s wife.
The Native Americans taught them how to plant corn and fish, but according to Governor Bradford’s notes, even the most industrious didn’t work very hard at it. After all, why work so hard when you’re only going to get the same amount as the ones who don’t? Why expend all that effort for other people’s families when they’re not willing to expend the effort for themselves? So Governor Bradford changed the system.
Bradford assigned each family a plot of land and told them to work it as they saw fit, and they could keep the proceeds or trade it or sell it or give it away, if they chose. (Does this sound familiar?)
Well, they thrived. They produced an abundance of food and goods. Probably more than they could figure out what to do with. In gratitude to God, they had a big community feast to use and share all they had produced, and they invited the Indigenous to thank them for their help (and as a gesture of friendship.)
The original system in which everyone worked for the collective failed. It almost starved them to death. The new system, which incentivized producing as much as you wanted, produced an abundance they had to share.
Accordingly, one of the things I am grateful for today is Governor Bradford’s decision to abandon the failing collectivism of the original Compact and adopt a system based on incentive, which gave rise to an abundance we still enjoy.
Well said.
That failing system of collectivism is rearing its ugly head, and must be defeated, once again.
RIP Rush, you are missed greatly every day.
True words, those...
I miss Rush SO much. Conservative talk radio just isn't the same without him.
Me also.
And I miss posting his Show Thread every day at noon, for several years.
I hope we don't have to subscribe to the Clay & Buck "24/7" type subscription that they keep emailing me about. Not interested in listening to live shows nor archived shows from Clay & Buck. They are an extremely poor "replacement" for El Rushbo, IMO.
They’re all free, there.
Here is the InterNet Archive, for EVERY SHOW HE EVER DID. It’s all free, and all you have to do, for another page of hundreds of shows, is change the page number up in the URL address box:
https://archive.org/details/rush-limbaugh-radio-show?sort=date
Enjoy, and pass it around...
John
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