So what have we learned in 2 millennia?
"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.....