 happy thanksgiving so let s start our holiday weekend with some entertainment and some education first the entertainment the michigan view  posted a youtube video by tim hawkins that is fantastic it s a parody of the candy man can called the government can you ll want to sing along second here is a truer thanksgiving than most people are told in school which i posted last year as well thanksgiving is tomorrow and i like most people am looking forward to some great food and most likely mediocre lions football and i suppose time with the family too but i wanted to take a few moments to write about our great american holiday thanksgiving there are differing versions of the story of thanksgiving the most common is that the indians saved the pilgrims by teaching the clueless settlers how to properly grow food others tell of evil and greedy men who seized indian land and abused the innocent natives who lived in peace until the pilgrims arrived then there is the least known version of the story of thanksgiving and one that doesn t involve speculation william bradford governor of the plymouth colony kept a diary of the early years of the colony and this diary provides a startlingly different look at events initially the plymouth colony existed as the workers paradise that social utopians would have loved the workers labored for the benefit of all the food they produced being put into a common store and shared by everyone from each according their means to each according to their needs you could say this had miserable and tragic results as many in the colony refused to do their share of the work and existed as takers not producers because of the lack of productivity the colonists starved and only after bradford distributed land to be farmed privately with each family keeping what they produced was the colony saved you can read accounts at freedomkeyscom and the ludwig von mises institute  it is a fascinating story about human nature and economics and one avoided from being taught purposely or otherwise i hope everyone has a happy and relaxing thanksgiving  