"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Our president apparently has never read Cicero or, if he did, he didn't believe him. If he didn't believe him he obviously has no idea what happened to the Roman Empire.
Something else from Cicero:
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Consul in 63 BC, is generally acknowledged as the most gifted orator in the history of Rome, but he also knew what he was talking about.
