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Not only were Northern resources effectively inexhaustible, they weren't even tried. All the while we were suppressing the Insurrection, we were building one of the greatest wonders in the history of the world, the Trans-Continental Railroad. Imagine us completing the Apollo Program in the middle of the Second World War for a comparison. The so-called CSA was a joke, and the Lost Cause was an imbecilic cause worth losing. Thankfully it never had a chance of working in the first place.

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Imagine us completing the Apollo Program in the middle of the Second World War for a comparison.

Well we did do Apollo in the middle of the Vietnam War --- neither fiscally trivial endeavors. And then came the 'stagflation' of the 1970s.