[Hegemony Cricket]

Not necessarily GGG, but interesting history ping.

[Oldpuppymax]

Yes but the pilgrims only had God on their side, not Hussein!

[TheThinker]

I just realized that the same tendency to slack and give less to the communal effort is the same tendency that spurs people to excel when their effort benefits them directly.

That tendency is called self-interest. And you'll never break human beings of that habit. It's as natural as the seasons.

[publiusF27]

This is an interesting article, and here are a few others on this same subject:

God bless America

Property and the First Thanksgiving

The American socialist experiment