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It was ever thus ....

A constituent emails me something Cicero said in 55 BC.

"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."

It's a pretty good summary of what our government ought to be doing in 2011.

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