Thanksgiving 2010

As a result of many forces and excesses at work in our society and country today we are experiencing difficult times.  The economy has been dealt a severe jolt, largely the result of the build up over time of excessive debt.  The nation's response to this condition has been to elect the first overtly socialist president in our history.  In the first two years of his administration it's clear socialism is not the answer, as all of the schemes to engineer us out of this mess have failed.  Of course the template for this failure has used many times in the past and always failed, so why should any one be surprised at its failure this time around.  In our own American experience the socialist template was first used at the Plymouth Plantation by the very first pilgrims.  They all nearly all died off before Governor Bradford and his council decided they better try something different, which experiment noted here in this essay by historian Paul Rahe, saved the day and launched the colony, and subsequent country, on the path to a prosperous future.  It's hard to fathom why so many keep coming back to a formula that fails every time it is applied.  Whomever comes up with the answer to this riddle could save everyone lots of grieve in the future.  But then maybe not, dreamers will always dream and no amount of reality is going to stand in their way.  Hopefully it will only be two more years until we can start to get back on tract.