Do you know what "Bread and Circuses" refer to?
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2012/08/09 12:05:15
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It refers to a particular stage in the fall of the Roman Empire. do you think that this has relevance to us today?
What does it lead to?
What does it lead to?
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Evil 1 2012/08/09 12:45:53Yes, because.....
+4Considering that approximately 48% of the US population is on one type of government entitlement or another (and that number is projected to increase annually) I think the term is very relevant. Couple this with the fact that the government is making it easier to obtain assistance rather than promoting personal responsibility (very evident from Obama's recent changes of the Clinton Welfare Reform law) and anyone who understand basic economics will realize that what it eventually leads to is an economic collapse of the United States. When there are more people depending on the entitlements than are working and putting money into the system the government is doomed for financial failure. Just look at Greece.
The cost of maintaining the territories that it had taken was far more than the economy could support and the gap between rich and poor was the largest that it had ever been.
Whilst the patricians were indulging themselves in every way you can imagine, the people were starving...
Rome's finally fall came because (despite it's amassed wealth) it could no longer afford to fight external threats, police internal conflict and feed the people.
IN the end it leads to more people being paid by the Government than there are people paying into the treasury .
As the value of the money supply diminishes ( inflated by fiat money printed ) and the payments cannot be maintained comes the protest , riots , class warfare and the eventual collapse of the society .
Rome collapsed when those in the outlying districts left the farms and production and moved to the cities . Idle citizens , being self indulgent and starving scared the Roman government for fear of Riots .This began the practice of Bread and Circuses ( social welfare programs ) to attempt to appease them. Didn't work then either .