The family had always
been the basic economic unit and families had gathered into clans and tribes.
But personal property had always been reserved for the family. Leaders emerged
within the clans and further mergers created Empires and property rights
evaporated.
Most Empires
throughout history have failed because of government overspending and
population under-producing. The Roman Empire (100 BC – 476 AD) couldn’t pay
their soldiers.
For thousands of
years, serfs and slaves suffered under monarchies and experienced no end of
abuse. Refusal to submit to the monarchs resulted in death or
imprisonment. There had always been
opportunities for talented individuals who did useful things to advance from
serfdom to become a prosperous vendor to the King. Production was provided by
crafts like masonry, metalwork and science. Merchants were growing their wealth
through trade. By 1400 the merchant and
craftsman classes were growing to form the middle class.
When the
merchant-based private sector became wealthier, they became a target.
Our current threat of
big government socialism was inspired by the beginnings of the Industrial
Revolution. We had been successful developing inventions and this knowledge
culminated in the 1600s. The Steam
Engine was developed in the 1700s. We were ready to apply new science in the
1800s and it resulted in factories for mass production.
A Christmas Carol was
written by Charles Dickens in 1843 and describes an unhappy miser named
Ebenezer Scrooge, whose spirit of generosity was restored.
The Communist
Manifesto was written by Karl Marx in 1948 and proposed that the working poor
should embrace a “political solution” to end their plight.
Oliver Twist was
written by Charles Dickens in 1867 and described the poverty and child labor
common in England at the time.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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