Did Cicero actually say this?

"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 become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Marcus Tulius Cicero - 55 BC

I don't see it here. But he does have some great quotes attributed to him.

Ref:
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marcus_tullius_cicero.html)

Are you sure we are talking about Rome, it sounds like we are talking about present day government, have we learned nothing in two millennia

I have not seen that quote attributed to him .
More likely it is one of the many variants of the quote that originated from Taylor Caldwell's fictionalized account of Cicero called 'A Pillar of Iron'.

It seems improbable that this line was not concocted in the modern era :
the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt

Another possibility is that it could be from William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. The use of the word "lest" could be a clue.

A friend of mine who is good at research has emailed me that the parts about foreign aid and the budget don't apply, but that the other parts could very well be.

Rome did go bankrupt.

The USSR went bankrupt.

We seem hell-bent on following the same path to oblivion.

So what is left is the arrogance of officialdom.

Yes that appears to be ageless.