What have we learned in 2,072 years?

 

         "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

 

Evidently nothing.