HERE IS THE POST THAT RESULTED IN THE 3 DAY SUSPENSION FROM FB...

Spreading the wealth 1860s style…

The failure of the South to win the War for Southern Independence was a deathblow to liberty and the reason this country is in the shape it is today.

See if you can spot the connections…(and please don’t insult us with the fallacious slavery argument)

Lincoln believed that import tariffs were necessary, at the expense of consumers. He believed that American industries needed to be shielded from foreign competition and cheap imported goods. The "internal improvements" he advocated were simply subsidies for industry, i.e., corporate welfare. He was the first president to give us centralized banking, with paper money not backed by gold.

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America forbid protectionist tariffs, outlawed government subsidies to private businesses, and made congressional appropriations subject to approval by a two-thirds majority vote. It enjoined Congress from initiating constitutional amendments, leaving that power to the constituent states; and limited its president to a single six-year term. 

When the South lost, instead of a Jeffersonian republic of free trade and limited constitutional government, the stage was set for the United States to become an American Empire ruled by a central authority. In starting his war against the Confederate States, Lincoln was not seeking the "preservation of the Union" in its traditional sense. He sought the preservation of the Northern economy by means of transforming the federal government into a centralized welfare-warfare-police state.

Partially taken from a Lew Rockwell article by Donald W. Miller, Jr.