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Title: Jus' Sayin'--Cicero
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Published: Mar 2, 2015
Author: Cicero
Post Date: 2015-03-02 20:11:35 by christine
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"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 Poster Comment: 
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#1. To: christine (#0)
The brilliance of old, dead White guys.
Marcus Tullius Cicero had a lot to say: “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” "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
#2. To: Jethro Tull, christine (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: christine (#0)
That's democracy for ya.
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