All I see is blather. You must of course be referring to BroJoeK, and I stopped reading his opinion on this subject a long time ago, and yes, it's all opinion.
What I have are facts. I can show where the money went. You guys can't. You're still stuck on the old propaganda used to cover up what was really going on. (The illusion that anyone in the power structure really gave a sh*t about black people during the war.)
This Country is ruled by New York and Washington DC mostly, and every day people bitch about the Media (New York) and the "Establishment" (Washington DC) and not a one of you can see when this all started, and why it has kept going.
The enemies of this nation today, are what used to be the enemies of the Southern people who just wanted independence.
We have all become enslaved to the power blocks of New York and Washington's Crony Capitalism. This is why the debt is so far out of control.
Who benefits from all that excessive money being spent?
Cui bono?
Idioto!
Naw, the real reason is DiogenesLamp fears the truth & avoids facts the way Count Dracula shrinks from the true Cross.
That's why he won't read my posts.
DiogenesLamp: "What I have are facts.
I can show where the money went.
You guys can't."
You can show nothing factual that opposes real history.
Nobody denies that money flowed in 1860 just as it flows today, from producers to consumers & back again by various routes & reasons.
Nobody denies that once secessionists began renouncing their debts and refusing to pay what they owed, then Northern Democrat merchants suddenly had skin in the game.
Instead of supporting their Southern brethren's secession, they now began to oppose it.
But there's no evidence -- none, zero, zip evidence -- suggesting those Democrats were suddenly driving Republican Lincoln's policies or actions.
DiogenesLamp: "This Country is ruled by New York and Washington DC mostly, and every day people bitch about the Media (New York) and the "Establishment" (Washington DC) and not a one of you can see when this all started, and why it has kept going."
It started with the first US administration in Washington, DC, and that was.... ?
Oh, yeh, Southern Democrat Thomas Jefferson, 1801.