Why Jamestown was important.

As you probably know, Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America.  The year was 1607.

What you may not know is that Jamestown was settled by about 9000 people who were "sponsored" by wealthy English businessmen.  The terms of their deal were:

There would be no private property.
They would live in a commune and share the duties and the resources.
There would be no "dog eat dog" mentality.
The leader would give the assignments.

So what happened to them? 

Out of the 9000 settlers only about 1000 survived the rules of the deal.

The same English businessmen sponsored the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony with the same rules.  The only difference was that these folks were religious so surely the rules would work here, right?

Their leader William Bradford too meticulous notes so we have far more information about Plymouth than we do about Jamestown.  The rules didn't work any better with religious folks than it did at Jamestown.  They nearly starved to death as well. Bradford tells us that those with the most excuses at work time came with the biggest basket at harvest time.  No work was getting done.

Bradford said that they were trying to get AWAY from tyranny but that the people were making him a TYRANT.

Anyone know what happened next?

Why we need term limits in Congress

As a voter, would you know it if your representative felt this way about you?  Are you awake?

This is from his website:

  "Again, thank you for the HONOR to represent you.  I ask for your support in my re-election and that of other Democratic candidates in our community who share our commitment to peace, health and prosperity for all."

If it weren't so serious, it would be laughable.  After you watch the video, see if you think this man knows the first thing about HONOR. And what does this say about his constituents?

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