So what have we learned in two millennia?
“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 the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
– Cicero – 55 BC
…Evidently nothing.
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So what have we learned in two millennia?
Thats how people predict the future huh..
Our life is a spiral and rereats in a few times!
This will keep coming again and again. Politics is not childs play.
Of course, Rome is no longer an empire. We will not be an empire for much longer at this rate!
If #MotherTeresa were still alive, would #RichardDawkins visit the slums of Calcutta to tell her she’s delusional?
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Everything happens in cycles, and by the looks of it we’re starting to reach full circle with the current model of civilization. So many similarities can be drawn between the last days of the Roman Empire, as compared to the current USA, that one has to seriously start thinking of coming up with solutions before everything is totally kaput!
Nearly everyone can agree with those goals. The challenge is in how to achieve them.
I personally would have voted for Obama if I had been a citizen BUT I really don’t like today’s bailout mentality!
What? A Bailout? Oh you mean GIVING AWAY taxpayer money to PRIVATE corporations because they SUCK at their business? Yeah sounds good??
Daniel Larsson you just don’t understand do you? Ok let all our major banks go under what happens then? Exactly we are in an even deeper mess. Grow up and know your facts.
Sounds familiar. Did Obama say that not long ago :)
Its amazing we still can’t balance the sheets and are just piling up more and more debt.