Cicero for President 2012!

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Cicero, 55 BC
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

 We have not learned much in 2 thousand years!

(H/T Trevor)