New PCYC CEO John Gillespie.
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Nothing new

BILL BAYLISS, Safety BayEastern Reporter

Treasury should be managed and public debt should be reduced.

Arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled.

Assistance should be curtailed to foreign lands lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living off public assistance.

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So wrote Cicero in 55BC. Evidently, we’ve learnt nothing over the past more than 2000 years.