“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and theĀ assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC
So, evidently we’ve learned bugger all over the past 2,069 years!
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