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Old 04-06-2010, 12:54 PM
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"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."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
55 BC
Geez, it was less than one hundred years after Cicero, the famous Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer and political theorist made that statement until Nero, the last Roman emperor, played away on his fiddle while Rome burned.