Ohio lawmakers vote to give themselves a pay raise

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(06-08-2019, 09:57 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(06-08-2019, 08:35 PM)Jumpy Wrote: Romans were willing to tolerate any government abuse as long as there were bread and circuses.

Sound familiar?

We aren't the Romans.

We do not have gladiatorial combats or spectacles in which religious dissidents become food for bears and big cats. No, we have not modernized that to spectacles in which pariahs are fed to sharks in aquariums.

True, in part.  However, those classes most likely to violently rebel (the poorest) tend to get food vouchers and their circuses come in a relatively cheap box.  America is Rome but without the high brow entertainment that the Colosseum provided.