Nothing Changes

ShootersHillGuru

"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 BC
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> So, evidently we've learnt bugger all over the past 2,067 years.

Lincsaddick

Remember what finally bankrupted Rome was the huge expenditure on games, bread and circuses for the idle and the unemployed .... There is a warning to the Premier League in there somewhere

Loco

everything changes

grumpyaddick

The rise and fall of empires and this one has just about had it.

Loco

Confucius said much the same 1000 years before that SHG

Mendonca In Asdas

Blimey, this is quite deep for a discussion after 10pm , I guess you could replace the comment about the games with the modern version of the Olympics as a distraction from what's going on in the country.

MountsfieldPark

Written by Cicero, aka Taylor Caldwell, in 1965 AD.

Clues: Assistance to foreign lands - Rome? Public assistance - Rome?