Sterling’s Truths for Life: government ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sterling’s Truths for Life #15: Giving a government official a big pile of money is almost always a bad idea. Just kidding. It is always a bad idea. Sterling’s Truths for Life #31: What do you call a huge publicly-owned monopoly run by greedy, power-hungry shareholders, which can change the rules of the marketplace at will and force consumers to buy at the point of a gun? Democratic government.