What Have We Learned in 2,064 Years?

[Manta]

Subject: 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

Evidently nothing.


Manta

[Bob]

Oh soooo true !
evidently we haven't learned a thing from the past, because we still make those blunders!
if we COULD say that the Government was the only Guilty one, that would be a good thing in itself... but we can't, because we as individuals make the same mistakes over and over throughout our lives....
  who here is out of debt ? who here has more income than expenses and can save substantial amounts each year ?   
we are all guilty in some way of blundering along in life and making mistakes... that is how we learn.... the problem is, some time it takes 2 or 3 times before you learn your lesson!
 However the Government SHOULD "LEAD the WAY".... yet it is worse at it than we are !
LOL !
...
Bob.....