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Last week the talk of the town was the Farm Bill. With Wednesday’s presidential veto of the bill - a rare instance of fiscal restraint for W indeed - the collective jabber continues, taking on a celebratory tone for opponents of pork and government waste. You know, that thing that was once considered a “conservative” value. These days - not so much…

As Night Twister laments:

Finding a true conservative in Congress these days is like finding a farm growing anything other than corn…or Renewable Energy as it is now called.

Ugh. Ethanol subsidies…don’t remind me.

Fortunately ‘Twister is on top it, giving Rep. Marilyn Musgrave - a self-proclaimed conservative who has pledged to “lead the fight” in overriding Bush’s veto - a little econ 101.

As for waste at the local level, in Chicago it appears we need an ethics class because no amount of Keynesian indoctrination could produce the following level of disrespect for taxpayer investment…

Coming from our own Rock’s Rantings, we get wind of Alderman’s Lyle’s magazine subscription to Communist Party propaganda and, moreover, $1,480 that was spent by Alderman Latasha Thomas to mow the pathetic, dinky strip of grass you see on the left-hand side of your screen.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

What’s the solution? How do we put a end to this culture of political corruption?

As Eric O’Keefe’s Monday-morning post put it, don’t look for hope in our political parties. They’re not the solution.

They are now quasi-governmental entities run by incumbents to expand their power. They offer no check on the power of government; and they are so heavily regulated by government that there is no prospect of reviving them…

Liberty is in retreat because our political parties are controlled by incumbents in government whose goal is to increase their power over taxpayers. Only private, voluntary organizations can hope to preserve and promote principles that limit incumbents to their proper roles.

The solution is us. You, me - all of us.