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This is part of what I hope will be a long running series by the Cato Institute... a libertarian think tank. Whenever people talk about the need to "cut wasteful spending" in government, there is always the crowd of people who say something to the effect of, "Sure, it's easy to say in the abstract, but what would you cut specifically?" Well, I personally can think of a lot of things, and the entire Dept. of Agriculture is one of them:
John Stossel talked about the extreme waste in farm subsidies before the election, as part of his incredible series, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics, which I blogged about earlier.