Thanksgiving Message from VA-AFP

Happy Thanksgiving from Americans for Prosperity-Virginia
Because the First Thanksgiving occurred at Berkeley Plantation in 1619, two years before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock, we at AFP-VA feel it is only right to give thanks for the business enterprise that gave us the oldest representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere.
The Virginia Company of London that founded our Commonwealth, and eventually our Nation, was envisioned by investors, adventurers, and most importantly bold risk takers. The Virginia Company did not succeed, but from its settlers came our self-reliant founders.

Times are uncertain these days. But, in those early days, 400 years ago, it was the now famous Captain John Smith who said “He that shall not worke [sic] shall not eat.” While circumstances today are not nearly as dire as they were in Smith’s time, the meaning of his statement should not be lost. We face decisions as important as any before. Whether we spend ourselves into oblivion, or whether we make necessary cuts in the upcoming General Assembly session ; the decision is up to our elected representatives.

So here at AFP-VA, we give thanks 400 years later for our successful state, our nation and for those bold settlers who believed in the virtues of self-reliance.