A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential cause of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars....
-- Will Durant - (American historian - 1944)
Human Nature `Pork' for districts stashed all over
Alabama lawmakers saw all the signs last year of a budget crisis coming. Courts suspended jury trials, state prisons overflowed to dangerous levels and top leaders scrambled to avoid cutting millions from schools.
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