The Economic Crisis

A friend posted this on FaceBook.

"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. 

So, evidently we've learnt bugger all over the past 2,068 years!

I think he has that absolutely right.