Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140106:06:39:00
What politicians do. >> their empire kept expanding and they were bringing in more people they could loot and bring back to rome, and they hit the maximum extent of their empire and there was no one left to steal from, and then they started resorting to other ways to raise money, which was debasing their currency and taking silver of our of their coins, and the big government destroyed rome. it wasn't the barbarians. they came as the government was collapsing under its own weight. >> nero issued coins that were 95% silver. the next emperor, this was 85% silver, and all the way down to -- >> yo...