Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

From George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789

The American heritage of Thanksgiving of course hearkens back to 1620 and the Pilgrims. After a failed experiment in socialism, in which half the settlers died, governor William Bradford reverted to a Scriptural model of free enterprise – resulting in a flourishing and plentiful harvest! The resulting feast, shared with the Indians, was was praise and gratitude to Almighty God for his grace and blessings upon the Pilgrims. This is totally contrary to how this event is presented to school children today.

The first presidential proclamation in the history of America was Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. However, the holiday was only observed at the state levels until the Lincoln administration, during which another national proclamation was made after the battle of Gettysburg. In 1941, Congress established an official national holiday of Thanksgiving.

The origins of the Holiday, coupled with the presidential proclamations, are solid evidence of the Christian foundations of Thanksgiving.  The Word of God admonishes individuals and nations to offer praise and Thanksgiving to Him.  The Apostle Paul reminds us in the 1 Thessalonians 5:18 – In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. The might prophecies of the Old and New Testaments remind us that the nations of the earth will be ruled under Christ’s rod of iron.

Therefore it is evident that Thanksgiving is not only a distinctly American holiday, it is more importantly a distinctively Christian holiday. Will patriotic Christian Americans allow history revisionists to destroy one more vestige of our heritage? Our will we stand up and courageously tell the truth and teach our children properly?

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalm 11:3

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the salaries of federal employees are double that of private sector counterparts.  Yet statist politicians and media elites gasp at the the thought of tax relief for American families.  They berate proponents of tax cuts with cries of  ”how can we afford it?”  Here is an example of “journalist” Christiane Amanpour arrogantly lecturing members of congress about how taxes need to be increased.

As if the government is entitled to our money, and we should crouch down and be grateful for what we’re allowed to keep.  Meanwhile, federal employees are living high on the hog, a substantial portion of them working in unconstitutional and unnecessary bureaucracies. The thought that the federal government should shrink to its constitutionally mandated levels, and six-figure salaried federal employees go out and get a real job producing something is apparently too much of a brain freeze for some people.

How many taxpayer dollars have spent by federal agencies doing statistical research studies justifying their own existence?

A real stimulus package to the U.S. economy would be to dismantle this federal leviathan and infuse that money into the private the sector. The economic explosion would be unprecedented.  The current path we are on is not sustainable – we are quickly becoming a nation where the wealthy elites work in government, and the citizens are becoming slaves being eaten alive by taxes and inflation. Meanwhile, national debt is in the trillions of dollars, our currency is being devalued, people are becoming increasingly dependent on government subsistence, and thousands of jobs are being outsourced daily to foreign countries.

The America of 2020 is poised to look more like communist China than the freedom-loving, free market United States that we have all come to know and love. As the snippy Ms. Amanpour continues to lecture us that we’re not paying enough taxes, maybe she will be the first to volunteer to contribute more of her paycheck to keep the scores of high-paid federal workers employed. If not, maybe she’ll stand in front of the tank in Times Square for us in 2020 as the politburo looks down from on high with hands out and guns drawn.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson