People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero, 55 BC
And you know the rest of the story.....
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Hey there now! I didn't bring 'em here.BlaineG wrote: People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance
And you know the rest of the story.....
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Source: Attributed to MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, Congressional Record, April 25, 1968, vol. 114, p. 10635.This passage was reprinted in U.S. News & World Report, July 29, 1968, p. 15. Still later, a contributor reported this to The Review of the News, June 30, 1971, p. 19, and he also attributed this to Cicero. No evidence has been found to confirm that Cicero said these words, and it is almost certainly spurious. · This quote is tagged Uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation · Help your friends discover QB
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What's irritating is that 'we' set up shop in North America, and 'started over' - worked for awhile, until we created a good thing, with a free-market economy, Constitution, etc. - then the hordes of lazy leeches and socialists took over. Fifty years later when it is a mess like the countries they fled from, they'll be too stupid to realize they CAUSED it.jd45 wrote:We need to set up shop on Mars & start over. Those lunatics on the left are revvin up to go there, for what?....I don't know, cause there's nothin alive there, but we might as well join in, right? jd45
Our new POTUS is saying that he will duplicate the actions of FDR. He is trying to set up new deal type work programs. Bush dumped a huge amount of our treasury on the banks - with no apparent effect and no apparent accountability.mescalero1 wrote:O.S.A.K.
It's not that bad, nothing is EVER eaten as hot as it is cooked.
Let things cool off.
All will be well in the land when cooler heads prevail.
The best quote I've heard about this is something like "the lesson of history is that we never learn anything from history."we never learn from history, just doomed to repeat the mistakes
"Those lunatics on the left" are the ones who killed the space program's ambitions. They whined about how the Apollo program cost $70 billion up to 1970, and how we should "spend the money and fix the problems here on Earth first". Yeah, the Apollo program cost $70 billion over about 6 years. But the government threw away $70 billion on welfare programs in 1970 alone, and those lunatics won't tell you that. Those lunatics don't have the vision to go outward. Sorry for the political-ness...jd45 wrote:We need to set up shop on Mars & start over. Those lunatics on the left are revvin up to go there, for what?....I don't know, cause there's nothin alive there, but we might as well join in, right? jd45