Roman Advice For His Government
“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 will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 B.C.
So, we’ve evidently learned nothing over the past 2,073 years!
Nobody listened to him.
Guess what happened to the Roman Empire will happen to the current most powerful Western Empire. History repeats unless Trump changes the course of the current government spending.
The History will repeat because I think Trump has not the power and the will to reduce significantly the government spending.
I agree. When you are spending other people's money it's hard not to stop.