How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome (Barack “Robin Hood” Obama should read this)

The Cato Journal ^ | 1994 | Bruce Bartlett

[El Whino]

bump for later read

[NEWwoman]

Bookmarked for future reference.
Ironically, I just finished watching the BBC series - I Claudius.

[mulligan]

We are already on that road. Have been for years. Just observe America today compared with years ago. Too much government destroys most everything it touches. It has and it is. Wake-up Americans or we will soon go the way of Rome. That “way” is closer than you think.

[AuntB]

"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing." - Teddy Roosevelt

[calex59]

Robin Hood robbed the TAX COLLECTOR and gave the money back to whom it was collected from.

That there should be no doubt, Tax Collector=Government. Robin took back from an unjust government what it had stolen from the citizens.

[Mountain Troll]

There was a time when everyone had read this, as part of a high school education. There was a time when most educated people could the original records of it, in Latin. People quit reading History in Latin, and then they quit reading History, and now they read nothing at all.

‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’

[stockpirate]

That’s my point bit for some reason people think he stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

As the poster of this thread does.

[elpadre]

don't associate Obama with Robin Hood, please!

Robin Hood took from the government and gave to the poor.