We need to return to our roots

In view of recent happenings in our country such as the outrageous spending which in my opinion is going to be the ruin of this nation, and Congress trying to pass this hugh healthcare bill which the majority of American people do not want.  Not that  healthcare should not be reformed, but this bill is nothing more than taxation without representation.

I have been reading documents of our founding fathers and  the fundamental values which guided these founding fathers.  Thus I am posting this document of 1782.  You must remember that these men who fought the America Revolution...gave it their all.

Remember the brave men who signed our Declaration of Independence in 1776 put everything they had on the line as shown by this line from the document
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

Go to this link and read what happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Founding Fathers

This makes one pause and take into account the meaning of this Thanksgiving Day....the price that was and is now being paid for our freedoms. This is not just another day for football, turkey and checking the sales ads for black friday..but it should be just what it implies..a Day of Thanksgiving to our Creator Almighty God.
And a time to remember all the people who have made this possible for us...and on that note..here is another link that only takes a moment to send a thank you to our troops...who are far away from family and friends and deserve our thanks and prayers.
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Lets Say Thanks

Below is the document.

Thanksgiving Proclamation 1782

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.


IN COMMITTEE of SAFETY,
EXETER, November 1, 1782.
ORDERED,
THAT the following Proclamation for a general THANKSGIVING on the twenty-eighth day of November [instant?], received from the honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed, and sent to the several worshipping Assemblies in this State, to whom it is recommended religiously to observe said day, and to abstain from all servile labour thereon.
M. WEARE, President.
By the United States in Congress assembled.


PROCLAMATION.
IT being the indispensable duty of all Nations, not only to offer up their supplications to ALMIGHTY GOD, the giver of all good, for his gracious assistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn and public manner to give him praise for his goodness in general, and especially for great and signal interpositions of his providence in their behalf: Therefore the United States in Congress assembled, taking into their consideration the many instances of divine goodness to these States, in the course of the important conflict in which they have been so long engaged; the present happy and promising state of public affairs; and the events of the war, in the course of the year now drawing to a close; particularly the harmony of the public Councils, which is so necessary to the success of the public cause; the perfect union and good understanding which has hitherto subsisted between them and their Allies, notwithstanding the artful and unwearied attempts of the common enemy to divide them; the success of the arms of the United States, and those of their Allies, and the acknowledgment of their independence by another European power, whose friendship and commerce must be of great and lasting advantage to these States:----- Do hereby recommend to the inhabitants of these States in general, to observe, and request the several States to interpose their authority in appointing and commanding the observation of THURSDAY the twenty-eight day of NOVEMBER next, as a day of solemn THANKSGIVING to GOD for all his mercies: and they do further recommend to all ranks, to testify to their gratitude to GOD for his goodness, by a cheerful obedience of his laws, and by promoting, each in his station, and by his influence, the practice of true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness.


Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty and Independence, the seventh.
JOHN HANSON, President.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.