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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Poppy Dave on July 10, 2012, 08:29:25 PM

Title: Some things do not change!
Post by: Poppy Dave on July 10, 2012, 08:29:25 PM
"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

So, evidently we've learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.

Title: Re: Some things do not change!
Post by: Shiney on July 13, 2012, 01:55:33 PM
So, evidently we've learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.
:eek Well that's a sobering thought
Title: Re: Some things do not change!
Post by: alans1100 on July 13, 2012, 02:26:11 PM
one thing for certain has changed.

Back in those days it was quite normal for the leader of a country to be in the front lines with the troops in times of conflict. That doesn't happen today.
Title: Re: Some things do not change!
Post by: JuST Peter on July 13, 2012, 08:17:02 PM
one thing for certain has changed.

Back in those days it was quite normal for the leader of a country to be in the front lines with the troops in times of conflict. That doesn't happen today.

Being as popular as she isn't, our illustrious leader wouldn't game to have her back to us in battle would she :grin
Title: Re: Some things do not change!
Post by: Brock on July 13, 2012, 09:24:49 PM
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Being as popular as she isn't, our illustrious leader wouldn't game to have her back to us in battle would she :grin

She would be safe, noone would want to waste a good bullet