The difficulty, Friedman observes, is that no individual can be aware (let alone keep track of) all the individual depredations our leaders have been bribed to fund. The Codfish Lobby, the Lightbulb Lobby, the Sierra Club, the Teachers Unions dispense fortunes to legislators to fund their individual boondoggles, and there is such constant horse-trading and obfuscation, so much money devoted to chicanery, that no individual can combat it. The only way the government can be kept to its sworn duty to serve the people according to the Constitution is to starve it.
