U.S. Rome's fate?

Quote of the Day !!!

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome becomes bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
-- Cicero, 55 BC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was close to the time that Rome ended as a republic and
Caesar Augustus took over as the first Roman emperor.

An article on the Internet explains how the Rome Republic died and despotic rule began under the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus. That was in 27 BC. A line from the article states, “Their attempts to amass power through populist tactics were opposed by the conservative elite within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero.”

Are we on the same track as the Rome Republic with this administration’s tactic of bringing everyone under their control with every nanny entitlement that will make everyone puppets on a string?

This is an excerpt from an article I wrote earlier:
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.