Posted on 06/23/2016 2:04:08 PM PDT by ColdOne
A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.
The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May by a vote of 265-159, with most Republicans voting against the ban. But Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both supported the measure. Ryan was commended for allowing a vote on the controversial measure, but has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.
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Of course it was. It is central to every sub-argument that any lost causer makes. Money, culture, historical precedent, geography, "states-rights" - they all exist as a factor because slavery was a component.
It is not what the Confederate Constitution said about slavery that caused the Union to invade it. It was what it said about being independent of the Union's financial controls that convinced the Union that it had to be invaded.
The South's reasons for leaving don't matter. Presumably if they left because they didn't like Northern grown apples, the Union would still have invaded. It is the North's reasons for sending men to die to stop Independence that matter.
Those reasons boil down to money. Who would lose it, and who would gain it.
The Marco Rubio Foam Party.
And yet you still can't address the fact that the North was getting 90% of the money from exports instead of the 28% they earned.
Ugly slave profits kept them pacified. When the profits stopped, the war started. They wanted their slave profit money.
I have. Slavery in the US was an accepted practice. Most of these people from Africa sold by Muslims to traders in Boston.
It became the rally point for the North when in reality it was going away by its own volition. 40 acres and a mule!
Uh huh.........
It was the river............
Just the same as Brexit is about Nationalism.
What I would love for you revisionist history buffs is to bring the Caribbean into it.
Be careful, Uncle Joe and his Rum own that one.
The revisionism is all on the part of the lost causers.
Would you then agree that losing 600,000 people on both sides of a states rights issue was a lost cause?
Sure.
Play your Duran Duran and don’t expect a card on your birthday.
Your an idiot.
Opinions vary.
And after the end of the war, the flag that still flew over those slave states that DID NOT join the South, and slavery was still legal, was the Stars ans Stripes. Most of those UNION SLAVE STATES did not release their slaves until the 13th Amendment was passed eight months after the end of the war.
Actually due to recent research the number of dead has been put at 750,000. Thank you Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee.
This is supposed to do what? Educate me somehow that the Republican Party was not anti-slavery because of one vicious cartoon?
The North invaded the South? Jeez, I like how you left out that little dust up at Ft. Sumter. Why don’t you put out your f**king lamp and go to sleep. It’s past your bed time.
Hear hear, Laz. There are some seriously overwrought claims being made on this thread. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Oh please. That’s a bulsh!t arguement. New Jersey had exactly four blacks who were in ‘’indentured servitude’’. While not a a morally acceptable situation it can hardly be called slavery as it pertained to what it was in the South. My home state never had cotton plantations. You’re talking about The Stars And Stripes as being the flag of slavery sounds exactly what those idiot lefties say about the Confederate flag. The same then could be said for the Gadston Flag or The Bonnie Blue.
The seriously overwrought claims gave me pancreatic cancer and also have directly killed millions. People who made the claims caused galaxy-swallowing black holes.
Damn them.
Damn them to hell.
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