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To: SMGFan
When things got bad Roman emperors would give away food to the masses and have horse racing, chariot racing and gladiators matches open to the public for free. They called it Bread and Circuses.

Now we call it EBT and the NFL.

39 posted on 01/16/2014 5:42:57 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“When things got bad Roman emperors would give away food to the masses and have horse racing, chariot racing and gladiators matches open to the public for free. They called it Bread and Circuses. Now we call it EBT and the NFL.”

Well put. Our government knows both the French & Russian revolutions, as well as the rise of Nazism, started with hungry people.


41 posted on 01/16/2014 5:52:00 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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