I wasn't familiar with Bread and Circuses, so I looked it up on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

So only people with jobs or landowners should vote?
I must totally not be understanding where you were going with Heinlein's quote.
I'm not wanting to attack you, I just want to better understand where you are coming from.

If you are simply saying that we need more effective policies to deal with freeloaders and greedy opportunists in our society (both welfare freeloaders and corp. subsidy freeloaders) -- then I couldn't agree more.

But blaming poor people for bringing down the country is nuts. They have no real power.
The folks that have the power are those that have the resources to hire armies of lobbyists and tax attorneys.

We have got to start getting along and find middle ground and get some legislation through that is going to encourage job growth in the private sector.