The Libertarian Party of Bucks County proudly endorses Thomas Massie (@MassieforKY) for Secretary of Agriculture! His background in farming and his commitment to free market principles make him an amazing pick for @realDonaldTrump's Cabinet.
Political violence is never the answer. The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania condemns all such acts without exception.
Today’s senseless attack on Charlie Kirk is exactly what our country does not need.
What we need are more people willing to engage in open, respectful conversations, as Charlie does, rather than resorting to violence.
Brian Fitzpatrick is the quintessential example of this.
He has never seen a war he didn't like.
He will support government spending and surveillance at every opportunity.
He adheres to none of the supposed values of the Republican Party.
Credit where it's due, McCormick voted for significant spending cuts.
Fetterman, like every other Democrat, wants to keep spending money we don't have.
This national debt will ruin our country.
Today a grand coalition has been formed to push for Defend the Guard Legislation.
Join us in signing the petition and advocating to ensure our National Guard is never again sent to foreign wars while we continue to suffer from the devastating effects of national disasters at home.
https://t.co/MxkYcNSiHp
📆 #OnThisDay, December 13th, 1636, Massachusetts organized its first militia regiments, forming the foundation of the modern National Guard.
Today, National Guard troops are deployed abroad, leaving their states vulnerable during crises. Defend the Guard legislation would ensure they remain home unless Congress declares war. Every state should pass this crucial reform.
#DefendTheGuard #StatesRights #Liberty
Right now Americans are freaking out at just flashy lights.
Imagine these drones in NJ start targeting and killing 'military age males' including at weddings, funerals, hospitals.
This has been the experience of millions of people victimized by US foreign policy for years.
📆 #OnThisDay, December 2nd, 1823, President Monroe declared the Monroe Doctrine, pledging that America would remain neutral in European conflicts. While short-lived, this policy echoed a sentiment that America should avoid foreign entanglements. Later generations ignored this wisdom, leading the U.S. into costly wars abroad.
The doctrine aimed to keep European powers out of the Western Hemisphere, but the principle that America should not meddle in foreign affairs was soon abandoned. Interventionism would later drag the U.S. into unnecessary conflicts, proving that neutrality and non-intervention are far better long-term strategies.
#MonroeDoctrine #NonIntervention #Neutrality #ForeignPolicy
🌟 Join Us for a Community Clean-Up on York Road! 🌟
Help us make York Road shine! This is your chance to come together with neighbors, make a positive impact, and take pride in our community. Let’s show what teamwork can do! 🧹🌳
📅 Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Meet at MBIT Lower Parking Lot on York Road
Hot cocoa and snacks will be provided to keep you warm and fueled! ☕🍪
Supplies will be available, so just bring your energy and community spirit. Together, we can make a difference!
🌟 We invite all residents to join us! 🌟
For more details, visit https://t.co/27qOq9CXCP.
Let’s create a cleaner and greener York Road! 💚♻️
#CommunityCleanUp #GoGreen #YorkRoadCleanup #VoteBrittanyKosin @LPBucksCounty@LPBucksPA@LPPAorg
Schools often teach a simplified version of Thanksgiving—a warm, feel-good story of unity between Pilgrims and Native Americans, focusing on community, unity, and gratitude shared over a communal feast. In popular culture, Thanksgiving symbolizes moral and spiritual triumph, perseverance, divine providence, and harmony among America’s earliest European settlers.
While these values are certainly worth celebrating, there's a seldom-mentioned aspect of the Pilgrims' story—the failure of their initial collectivist system, which led to the widespread starvation from which they were so thankful to be lifted. The Pilgrims initially owed their survival to the local natives who took pity on them, which unfortunately leads some explanations to suggest the economic lesson of Thanksgiving is one of socialist sharing of community resources.
But, while the charitability of the indigenous Wampanoag locals helped the Pilgrims overcome the harsh winter of 1620-21, concluding "socialized economy" ultimately solved their situation as the foundational lesson of Thanksgiving is actually the opposite of reality. In fact, despite the Wompanoag providing guidance to Pilgrim settlers on better farming and hunting methods more suitable for the New World, the Plymouth Colony was still failing into 1623. The Colony was initially established under a communal framework: all land was owned and farmed collectively. The result? Economic disaster. This "tragedy of the commons" led to poor productivity and widespread hunger. Hence, in 1623 Governor Bradford reported that, to avert further disaster, the colonists decided to introduce private property and assigned each family their own plot to farm. This shift resulted in a dramatic increase in productivity and prosperity, marking the real lesson behind the Thanksgiving celebration—the potential of private property rights that are foundational to Liberty.
When the colonists established property rights, they incentivized each family to work its own plot of land for short-, mid-, and long-term success. As a result, each family became part of a competing system, judged by the natural environment, which quickly sorted success from failure and redirected resources towards their most productive uses. In other words, a hierarchy of what Puritans divined as God's way of reinforcing behaviors of industrious prudence as worthy of bounty and success that similarly disincentivized idleness and indiscretion. In short, private property ultimately lifted the Pilgrims from starvation and dependence.
And for that, as modern US Citizens, we should owe to our good fortune of wealth and be very thankful, if not reflexively protective! This year and henceforth, consider Thanksgiving as more than a symbol of unity and gratitude. It is also a lesson in economic salvation. The Pilgrims' early experiment with collectivism failed—a cautionary tale of how collectivism today still strips individuals of the incentive to work and misallocates limited resources, worsening scarcity and creating poverty. In its place, our early settlers set a foundational example for the American spirit of liberty and individual rights that ultimately triumphed, that unleashed unprecedented human ingenuity, transformed famine into abundance, and laid the groundwork for the prosperity that would eventually characterize the United States as the home for the wealthiest citizenries in history, spanning all economic levels.
Thanksgiving, therefore, is not only a celebration of unity and gratitude for God's graces, but also of the universal intellectual truth of the liberating power of property rights and the success of individual liberty and cooperative enterprise in fostering human flourishing. It symbolizes the triumph of liberty over scarcity and serves as a reminder that economic freedom is the true path to abundance!