The budget should be balanced. The arrogance of officials should be tempered and controlled, and assistance given to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest we become bankrupt. The people should be forced to work and not depend on the Government for subsistence.
Attributed to Cicero. Those old Romans had the right idea. Too bad our political “elites” seem to have forgotten it over the ensuing 20 centuries or so.
With your shield or on it, Barack. And the more time goes by, the more it looks like it’s going to be (figuratively) the latter.