[ProtectOurFreedom]

There was an excellent post a month ago from the Cato Institute on this: How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome (Barack “Robin Hood” Obama should read this). The thesis is put forward very strongly.

[Squantos]

Thanks POF for pointing out that read.........history seems to repeat itself.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-7.html