Hell its been an ancient refrain. The Roman writers Tactitus (100ad or so), Cato (149 BCE) Plautus (200 BCE), Polybius (around 160-150 BCE), Scipio Aemilianus (160 BCE) among others all made the same set of complaints. I imagine if you go back to Ur, Ancient Jericho or Göbekli Tepe in Turkey or other ancient Mesopotamian cities 5000 years ago you'd have the same set of complaints about the declaine of morality, the nation/empire etc. The next thing I imagine is that they started yelling at the neighbourhood kids to get off the writers lawns.
In other words same old same old. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:20 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Every second of every day since the inception of this country, someone has > uttered the phrase "America as we know it is gone". > > the great irony of our amazing free republic is that at every turn many > think she's being destroyed......yet she always gets better. > > 20 years from now, America will be stronger and better than she is > today....and there will be a lot of people saying "man, this country used > to be great!" > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > "Thank god we live in a republic." > > > > I like to think of it as: > > > > The country formerly known as a republic. > > > > > > Not trying to step on the toes of Prince. > > > > J > > > > - > > > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad > reputation. > > - Henry Kissinger > > > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363109 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
