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.
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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – 55 BC
Read the story of Cicero. mmm….2000 years and nothing has changed. We’re doomed.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I have serious doubts that Cicero said that, and especially of Rome…”assistance to foreign lands”? Rome? Not so much.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=570302#post570302
November 6th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Fictional Cicero is good. I like him. Fictional Cicero has more positive sense in the fingernail of his pinky than Obama has negative sense in his entire body. Notice I have to compare fictional Cicero’s positives with Obama’s negatives because Obama has no positives as you will all shortly find out. He comes from an ecosystem – Chicago that supports gangsterism. These big Eastern cities in the USA are full of crooks and political cheats. Oops I forgot liberals think that’s a good thing.
November 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
The actual quote was:
“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”
Cicero
November 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Good one and all. As our economy plunges into the atmosphere of the sun because of politicians intent on maintaining their and cronies power with bailouts that will strip ever last bit of value out of the system before its done unless we stop them. We are watching Rome fail all over again.
November 29th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Obama may live in Chicago now, but most of his life was lived abroad. If you’re gonna diss a guy based on where he grew up and lived, at least get the facts straight.
November 29th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Jaguwar – I think you underestimate how dirty Chicago politics are. Where was it B.O. was based out of? Gee let me think. You liberals expect people to be so sappy. But then you are a liberal and how could anyone expect you to understand how ethics and business partners tend to run along the same lines. You’re so far behind the curve you’ll probably never really understand how the world works. What limited intellect and imagination you lefties have. All your “new” ideas are from 1932 ! ( first term Roosevelt )
November 30th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Jaguwar, Obama has lived almost his entire life in the U.S. He is forty-seven years old, and has spent only four years abroad.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 am
You actually should listen to yourself, Freemon. First, you endorse a fictional quote because it suits your purpose Then you claim that liberals don’t understand how ethics and business partners run along the same lines. Anyone with half a brain (which includes most liberals AND conservatives) could see this tendency clearly in the Bush administration. Let’s see: subverting the Constitution, ignoring laws on wiretapping, falsiifying intelligence (in multiple senses), pushing money to Haliburton with no-bid contracts, slackening regulatory oversight of the markets,and on and on. It wasn’t liberals who ran the county into the ground in the past 8 years.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 am
And Richard Nixon was the first to do what he did too right? The ChimpDemZees invented everything you infer / transfer onto Bush. Bush spent too much yes. That I agree. You then infer that you merely dislike this “fictional ideal” of Cicero’s because you and your libtard friends did not get to channel the funds. Your approach is the problem with our used to be democracy. Selective prosecution of ideals and indeed people. You miss what is in front of your eyes. If Republicans overspend 300 billion the ChimpDemZees turn around and multiply by 3X that amount and overspend with full cover by a fawning media. So your little write up has done nothing but confirm my observations about liberals and their self centered lack of objectivity, lack of self awareness and morals. Moreover you are the biggest fussy babies I have ever seen. When anyone dissagrees with you for instance in the case of Obummer being the loser that he is you act as though no one ever agreed with anyone ever in the entire history of mankind. In this case its a 100% certainty that Obummer is going down in flames with his poor choices. Dave you clearly know nothing about business and have less than half a brain. I expect you and you kind are about to be schooled by Hard Knox University in a way you never ever expected it to occur. I’m going to enjoy your girlish screams. After what is likely to occur a democrat will not be elected for a full generation.
ChimpDemZees = Democrats beating randomly on typewriters to trying to output a stimulus bill who somehow mystically never seem to attain Shakespearean output…. or anything else sensible.
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April 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
1)All our representatives are doing ($) fine. 2) speaking from both sides of their mouth.3)
THeir aim is to be elected. 4) get large ($) input from corporations.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
Sometimes in the past I thanked my lucky stars that large corporations could sway politicians. This was because in the past it seemed that only the welfare recipients and other government free cheese eaters would control the government by virtue of greater numbers of votes. The problem is now with Wall Street having so much power with Obama they have become welfare recipients themselves. I prefer the days when they had sway because of money but were left to fail when they screwed up.
The whole thing would work alot better if we did not allow congressman to stay seated so very damned long.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Does anyone know the source (which oration, letter, what have you) of that quotation?
July 16th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Freemon, you are AWESOME!!!
July 16th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Yah I know huh?! Its tough being this cool. Everybody wants a piece of me.
February 21st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I just buy corporate bond funds with intermediate target maturities. Corporate bonds are still paying a little bit, and Corporate America is fairly healthy right now. Whether they can keep the bottom line stable with a constantly shrinking customer base (thanks to a shrinking number of gainfully employed people) is a legitimate question, but it’s a stretch to say they can’t service their debt of the next seven years if they are investment-grade now. Even though inflation is a near certainty, we still don’t know when it’s coming, and there’s no point, in my opinion, bailing now when it could be two or three years. In any event, the inflation is much more likely to be Jimmy Carter-style vs. Zimbabwe-style, and Carter-style inflation won’t drive intermediate term bonds down in price anywhere nearly as bad as what you’d call a bubble asset, like a dot-bomb stock or a house out in the Arizona desert. As for treasuries, there’s not much point in investing in them now even without a bubble scare. The returns are so pitiful, you might as well hide the cash in your mattress. TIPS are a fine concept, but you had better have your TIPS in some kind of tax-advantaged account, since the nominal return is taxable. Since the rate on them is essentially zero above inflation, when inflation picks up your economic loss will be the nominal return times your tax rate.