Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s one. But otherwise, we’re solid.
“public order”
Yup - Obama is going to give us the reverse of public order. We may end up devolving into chaos.
The running & fresh water and sanitation were a huge thing.
The city-state could never have grown because without water/sanitation you would have had disease.