Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Thu, 11/26/2009 - 12:23pm | posted by Jason Pye

We at United Liberty want to wish you and yours a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving. We’ll be taking today off to spend with our friends and family, but we’ll be back on Friday.

Thanksgiving 1869

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Thanksgiving- A Case for Capitalism

Thu, 11/27/2008 - 11:42am | posted by Shana Kluck

We all grew up hearing the story of the first Thanksgiving- the deprivation and starvation, the help of the native Americans and the bountiful harvest that marked the first Thanksgiving.

What we rarely hear about is the method of economy the Puritans employed upon reaching the new shore- socialism. They endeavored to share the work and the fruits of their labor, eschewing the principles of private property and the free-market.

And how well did this work? Their Governor Bradford in his own words-