05 March 2009

Freer Trade

It's a worn out cliche, we don't learn much from history. Perhaps because we do not stop to think that issues we are dealing may not be modern, but ancient. It's not that we don't learn from history, we just don't think about it. We are no smarter than our forbears. I would be challenged to think of a truly new, truly unique, world problem.

A version of the following idiocy could have come from our current or recent houses of congress, or presidents, of the United States....

"In A.D. 22 the emperor Tiberius lectured the Senate that the habit of luxury and the appetite for Eastern exotica had provoked a hemorrage of Rome's money "to alien or hostile countries". Buying imported goods was nothing less than "subversion of the state" "

Spice - Jack Turner

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