Quote #452, My Thoughts and YOUR thoughts

Heres Blog Quote #452...

"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-

As my friend Helen D says.. so what have we really learned in over 2000 years?
Perhaps not nearly as much as Cicero would have liked us to learn.

HMMM...
What do you think?

That's my view..what say you?