The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the 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 B.C.
UPDATE - Apparently there is some skepticism whether or not this quote is in fact Ciceronian.
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Yet, Paul Krugman wins the Nobel for economics? Stunning.
Pay no mind to self-congratulating statists.
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