Forgotten American ( Jamestown, Indentured Servitude and a notion of self governance) Part II A notion of self governance in the new world By Terrance Mann

Forgotten American (
Jamestown, Indentured Servitude
,and a notion of self-governance) Part II A notion of self-governance in the new world By Terrance Mann

The Virginia Company went bankrupt in 1624. The company left behind the notion of self-
government via House of Burgesses. The localized system of government represented all the settlements that developed between 1607 -1624. The House of Burgesses could override the Crown's governor but rarely if ever did so and more or less worked hand in hand with the Crown.
 Of the more than 10,000 who came to the New World during this period, only 1,275 were surviving at the time of the
 Virginia Company's bankruptcy. It was these colonists, these survivors,
 who knew how to make it in the New World. Armed with a way to produce and export with no taxation (or tribute) of labor and a notion of self-
governance, a wealthy colony grew. In the underpinnings of this colony, there lurked a dark evil, and it was not slavery.
 Something much more sinister was at play - an unstated European class structure that continued down through the centuries to one degree or another fostering a master/slave relationship. This unstated class structure plagued the southern colonies/states and continues today in milder forms of corporatist giveaways, like cell phones for the poor and section eight housing. As a rule, President Johnson's War on Poverty and the Great Society were nothing more than a conduit for the cloaked class structure to live off working families and keep poor people in poverty. It played on the Christian "working class" tendency to feel guilty for social ills that were created by the people reaping the rewards in government monies. Funny
,how these "gentleman" can't seem to make their way without the good grace of the "common man" and his desire for peace and harmony. What happened to America with the Progressive movement in the 20th century was nothing more than another scheme to tax labor
,and we learned again
  (
or should learn) the same lesson the colonists learned at Jamestown.

America's first experiment with communism - as it would at all other times during human history
, -required enforcement. That is a point left-leaning historians never mention in their lectures and writings. In short, the workers were being taxed from sunrise to sunset for their God-given labor. The Revolutionary Generation in America maintained a memory of Captain Smith's
feudal system and ensured that their talents and labor were not subject to taxation.
 In this country, God-given talent was considered sacred at the time of our Independence from
"
Feudal Europe."  What happened to us?

Next month, The Forgotten American will take a detour back to Merry Old England and take a look at the king, his fiat coinage
,and the erosion of the purchasing power of the lowly commoner.
  Our historical narrative will compare the destruction of the king's fiat coinage to modern America leaving the gold standard under Nixon, the stagnation of wages since the 1970s
,and the destruction of the middle class via MasterCard and Visa.