mwm@ea.UUCP (07/23/84)
#R:ulysses:-91500:ea:4300004:000:617 ea!mwm Jul 23 13:31:00 1984 /***** ea:net.general / ulysses!gsp / 12:39 am Jul 22, 1984 */ Senator William Proxmire, from Wisconsin, was so fed up with government waste, particularly with govenment funding of research, that he began the Golden Fleece Awards for outrageous spending. /* ---------- */ Actually, I find the GF awards amusing, until I realize that I'm paying Proxmire's salary, and that he has *much* power when it comes to allocating research funding. Of the GF's I've seen, some of them are deserved, but many of them do little more than illustrate that Proxmire doesn't understand pure research. "Don't Proxmire me!" <mike