In todays Orange County [CA] REGISTER, 6-5-98 Pg Metro 9, is a column by James H Glassman titled: "Al Gore's Internet fiasco will cost us plenty. Mr Glassman is a columnist for the Washington Post and US News and World Report also a Director of the Reason Foundation". The article is approx a 1/4 pg in size, too much to quote or pass on; I'll give a couple items for you to get a little of that going on. Otherwise do a search in Newspapers for REGISTER, or Washington Post to find article. "The Internet project was part of the big 1996 telecom act, but Tauzin [Rep, R-LA] said on the PBS program TechnoPolitics that the FCC isn't interpreting the law as intended. Now, it 'smells like an unlimited tax upon unlimited entitlement'". ". . . few schools really know how to use technology well and 80% are already connected to the Internet". ". . .by running the whole show through a complicated array of boards in a system recently declared illegal by the General Acctg Office." "Scandals. Shenanigans are inevitable when Washington tries to administer the allocation of billions to 30,000 separate schools and libraries." "Salaries. Members of Congress are just now learning that Ira Fishman, a former White House aide who once raised campaign funds for Gore, is being paid $200,000 a yr to head the schools and libraries internet program." Rep John Dingell, D-MI: "We did not vote to have the FCC set up a giant bureaucracy headed by someone paid as much as the President."