The
United States has one of the best examples ever of communism's
failure. We all have heard the fanciful tale of how Thanksgiving
began. We have all heard how the poor ignorant Europeans settled in
Virginia and didn't know how to grow crops in which to feed
themselves. I clearly understand that the varieties in land can make
farming hard, and sometimes nearly impossible.
Europeans
had roamed several continents, all the while managing to feed
themselves. It was only when they came to some of the most fertile
soil on the planet that they began to starve. We are told that if not
for the indigenous population the settlers would have perished.
Something
did happen in Virginia. Those people were starving and then suddenly
their fields flourished. That transformation was in government, not
agriculture. In the beginning, they were a collective society,
Communism, if you must say it. During harvest, all crops were
brought to central storage where the village elders made sure each
household received their fair share. How many times
have we heard that term from Obama and the other socialist?
There
were people in the village that worked harder than others. Some
realized, consciously or unconsciously, that they could produce less
and still have as much food for their family as did the other
villagers. Like some plague, this sloughing spread its way thought the
village until they were near starving.
At
some point, the village was forced into a free-market society. Hard
working people became tired of providing for the slackers. People
began to provide for themselves. Neighbors traded their surpluses
with neighbor. The slackers saw the hard workers always had their
root cellars full, and their children always wore the better clothes.
This encouraged them to double the size of their fields so they would
have extra crops to trade for new clothes. In time, the village's best
seamstress no longer had to toil in the fields for food. She would
sew all day, while people traded their crops for the clothes she made.
This
is how all societies must work, or they fail. In those days, if
someone's house burned to the ground, they gathered together and and
worked until that house was rebuilt. Now we probably don't have many
neighbors that would know how to build a house, so we pay insurance
companies for that same service.
Also,
in today's government controlled country, the neighbors would find it
impossible to build that house. First, the trees could not be milled
from their own property and used as lumber because they wouldn't have
the proper government stamp. The neighbors couldn't work on the house
because they haven't had the proper government training in
construction and safety.
Unless
the family that lost their home has the proper liability
insurance, they wouldn't dare let the neighbors onto their property.
If one of those neighbor's slipped and fell they would likely take
the people's property in damages.
Has
this country gone full circle to the point we are going to starve
like those first settlers?
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