thank you, professor

I think you are responding(twice I might add to another post. which is mine). on the southern vs northern deal-please lay it out for us in your own post. so we can analyze appropriately

Welcome to Camp BOHICA.

I can't even read it all! How do these people sleep at night after they've spewed this gobbly guk of nonsense all at the expense of the reponsible? I am soooo sick of the looters and moochers, and the blind and deaf too! This truly IS an Animal House...

You know, while not strictly on point, it occurred to me while reading this article, how we have permitted the Federal government to simply explode (pardon the pun) since around 1860.

Wars always have unintended consequences and those consequences almost always create a huge growth in state administrative infrastructure and their associated tax revenue requirements.

Now, had we just let the Southern States secede from the Union, there would have been no need for a drastic increase in the military, the military industrial complex, the national railroad and highway systems, which have their roots in the Civil War, ad infinitum, until we're are sickened. In other words, the entire obscene growth of the Federal government with the need for drastic centralization would not have transpired,

The CSA and its bankrupt dependency on human slavery would have collapsed, in any event, in a few short years from its own inefficiency and sloth, and the entire post war reconstruction period, which enabled antebellum southern hegemony to reestablish itself would have made the following 100 years of black American suffering unlikely to have happened at all.

All because of war!

And, on point, Madam Secretary is a sterling role model for the lack of integrity in government service. She deserves no additional comment or attention.