Just as Cicero's words were ignored by the Roman elite, the the voices of those in "America today" who realize that we are on the same track to self destruction are being ignored. When the end comes it won't be anyones fault but our own, we didn't lose it, we let it go.. However, it would appear that like the Romans we are destined to experience the same fate, a fate that we could have avoided by simply keeping a copy of our constitution in our homes and teaching our children generationally of exactly what it allowed and forbid. One case in point, the unconstitutional foreign aid, Federal grants, becomming a banker, loaning out tax dollars. But, the root of the problem is that we allowed the United States to become a banker's corporation :The United States Inc." The act of allowing our once great country to become a part of world corporatism was the beginning of the end.