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[Poppy Dave]

"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 will become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."
 

- Cicero , 55 BC

So, evidently we've learnt stuff-all over the past 2,068 years.

[Wombat]

 

[RexJ]

People have listened to Roman logic for centuries - both Christian and not. Now a days our politicians are united over the world in not listening to anyone apparently, other than themselves. Nor do they seem to listening to any logic.

"Rome cometh you say?
I say Rome burns.
Where is Rome today?"

"Burnt, my Lord."

Author unknown. (smart bloke though)

[BigTed]

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Hehehe.... That's two quotes in two days!

[RexJ]

Well, didn't the Romans sack Gaul (Germany)?  They then invented the Mercedes. They did well there.

Then they sacked England and then invented Triumph motorbikes and Jaguars, (but lost the Jaguar to the Indians ???) and ended up with weak beer and footy hooligans.

Then they became Italians, invented spaggetti, and went broke.

Not all history is so hot, hey?  One day you rule the world, the next you ride a Lambretta scooter, on borrowed fuel money.

[alans1100]

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Christianity

We could blame The Roman Emporer Constantine as in about 330 AD he adopted Christianity which eventually led to the formation of the Catholic Church (A Condensed, Abridged and Highly Edited version).

Not sure if this was a good thing or not.

[RexJ]

I know. Everyones had a play with Christianity, or more likely it's church. Constanitne, King Henry the Eighth, King James, the Lords of Scotland.

If only they'd followed the basic instructions.

Mind you, if the Germans had run it, it would have been very efficient, and if the Japanese had got hold of it, it would have run very smoothly and efficiently.

If the Aussies had got hold of it things would have been as good as the NRL!

Gadzooks - we're back to we're we started. All hail Constantine.