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Title: What have we learned?
Post by: Timothy on August 09, 2009, 09:33:38 AM

What have we learned in 2,064 years?

"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

Apparently, NOTHING!

(borrowed from a friend!)

Title: Re: What have we learned?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on August 09, 2009, 09:39:41 AM

Quote from: Timothy on August 09, 2009, 09:33:38 AM

What have we learned in 2,064 years?

"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

Apparently, NOTHING!

(borrowed from a friend!)

Great post. And a reason why I bang my head against the wall when my students want to know why I make them read "useless old stuff" at the start of modern politics classes. After all, what do Locke and Aristotle have to say about American politics, or Thuycidides or Machiavelli about US foreign policy? Nothing right? Sigh......
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Title: Re: What have we learned?
Post by: Kid Shelleen on August 11, 2009, 01:42:58 AM

Another awesome post Timothy.

Man, that one really drives the point home.