Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 3

• Self-reliance is not the same as being selfish. Self-reliance means taking care of yourself and family. Entrepreneurs are self-reliant. Selfish means being egotistical and not sharing with others. Of course you can be self-reliant and selfish, but they are completely different things.
• Illegal drugs are pollution for the brain.
• If a country is a body, then the arm forces are the immune system of the country. It does not make sense to weaken the arm forces anymore than it makes sense to tell someone to weaken his immune system.
• Too much regulation can be strangulation for a business and therefore the economy of a nation.
• Punishing the successful does not help the unsuccessful. It may make the unsuccessful feel good for a while but that unsuccessful is still in the same situation.
• Liberalism is socialism lite.
• The primary function of any gov't is to protect its citizens from attack.
• You are not judged in the court of public opinion, you are judged in the court of the drive-by-cloned-media (DBCM). If the DBCM does not like you, you are guilty. (The drive-by-media was first coined by Rush Limbaugh. Dittos, Rush! I added the "cloned" part, since all mass media is more or less the same.)
• Gov't programs just about last forever. They seem to have a life of their own.
• I think the unemployment rate should be replaced by the employment rate. The employment rate would be more accurate to calculate. All a gov't would need to do is count the wages greater than zero on the IRS form. Calculating a negative number like the unemployment rate is always a tricky deal.