Posted on 07/14/2007 12:32:40 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
BTW, does everyone know that this war was the first war for the Marines. In fact, they are called leathernecks because they wore leather collars to keep the Muslim pukes from cutting their heads off...
Very interesting. Thank you for your analysis.
Data was compiled from a number of sources.
US Census, several sources for cost of wars, articles on US expenditures over the years, and an inflation calculator. I could post a list of urls if that would be helpful.
I spent half a day trying to find such a chart on the Web, without success. So I gave up and compiled it myself, more or less from original sources. I had no idea what it would show.
As stated, I make no claim that I didn’t make any errors. This is just my best effort.
A very interesting fact I ran across is that there was zero inflation in the US between 1800 and 1900. In fact, a dollar was worth more in 1900 than in 1800. Deflation.
Nice work. but obviously we need a fairness doctrine to counter your facts.
You're alive and you are free in the face of enemies who would deny you either...or both.
jarhead: Records from Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps cite references that state, “Jarhead is probably parallel to, or derived from, jug head.” Leatherneck magazine in 1933 cited Army soldiers as being called jarheads. However, according to limited information, the term as it applies to Marines is traced to the Navy in WW II. Sailors referred to Marines, drawing from the resemblance of the Marine dress blue uniform, with its high collar, to a Mason jar.
. . .which is why the “War Between the States” is probably the best nomenclature here on FR:
“The War of Northern Aggression” overlooks the fact that the CSA fired the first shots in an attempt to dislodge the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter.
“The Civil War” accepts the unitary-state abrogation of the Tenth Amendment that the Northern position entailed.
WBTS gives a nod to the correct position of the CSA on states rights, while not being so pro-Southern as to invoke the (false) accusation of being pro-slavery.
Nice analysis. The main problem the Left has with war is that it diverts funding from social programs. War against communist dictatorships and other totalitarian regimes is also an affront to their sense of preferred social order.
bttt
Well said.
I agree.
With reservations as to whether the extreme states-rights position of the seceding states was correct. This is a matter of opinion, not fact.
However, it is a matter of fact that most southerners believed they were fighting primarily for their state and its rights, which means the term has a southern tinge, which is fair enough since they started the war.
Few of the soldiers from New York believed they were fighting primarily for NY.
Hard money with circulating silver and gold and paper redeemable in kind. Now we have “FR notes” and coins that are more copper than any other content.
With the exception of the years during and immediately after the WBTS this is correct.
I wonder if anybody has determined how a gold-based currency would work today? A massive gold strike somewhere would cause high inflation, as the amount of money is a direct reflection of the amount of gold in circulation.
Despite a precious-metals based economic system, the Hellenistic period and the early modern periods has high inflation. Caused respectively by Alexander’s looting the hoards of the Persian kings, and the Spanish looting of American gold and (especially) silver hoards and mines.
In addition, transmutation of metals is probably technologically and possibly even economically feasible today or in the near future, making a system based solely on precious metals somewhat precarious.
“of being pro-slavery.”
or pro-monopoly/industry/high control or a combination thereof
Perhaps I should have said they started the shooting. That’s a fact.
I personally believe they started the war, but that’s an opinion.
Good work, Sherm.
Something I’ve been accused of before. :)
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