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Happy Thanksgiving!

I am a history teacher by trade.  Every year, I have to teach 7th through 12th graders World History, US History, Geography, Political Science and Biblical Studies.  It isn’t an easy task, because each year there is more history to teach!  However, the one thing I always try to impart upon my students, is the the fact that we are extremely fortunate to have all of the things that we do have, despite the fact that our media and political leaders pound us to death with bad economic news.

If you go back to earliest days of history, you would see that the world has, for the most part, been a horrible and dangerous place, where people were ruled by despots and tyrants.  In grander cultures, such as the Macedonian and Roman empires, people had advancements in technology and culture but there were many terrible dangers brought on by governments where you lived and died, by and for the state.

What makes America such a great place, is that for this one brief moment in time, on this one continent, people have had more freedom that could have ever been imagined.  We have a voice in our government through our elected representatives, we have freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom to choose who and what we are to be.  Even in today’s world, almost two-thirds of the people live under the threat of tyrannical governments that have the power and will to kick in doors and haul people off into the night if they so desire.

A large number of those countries also go to bed hungry every night with little or no shelter.  In America, we have had unprecedented prosperity where the majority of our impoverished have good food, cell phones and cable. ( John Stossel on ABC News Interviewed people in the poorest district in America a few years ago.  The majority of them were overweight and had all of the conveniences one could imagine.) If you were to go just across our border into Mexico, you would see shoeless children, rampant prostitution and the streets ravaged by drug lords.

We need to give thanks to God for what we have everyday. There really isn’t a country that has had this much for so long and we should consider ourselves most fortunate.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone from Electric Bikes -N- Scooters and God Bless!

ELMO

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