given a choice between ajax or ibm, they will go ibm.if you buy ibm, even if it fails, you will take not -- not to arrest. if ajax does not work, you are gone. bureaucrats are not risk takers. parikh katz -- bureaucrats do not make the money. there's a lot to be said. it can go wild and ridiculous. during the republican years, i have to confess it did. disturbingly so to the point where i was cutting down requests for earmarks. i thought it was getting rather insane with the expenditures and the type of earmarks that were being asked for. on the other hand, i have had the occasion to ask for earmarks that were acquired and created thousands of jobs and we would have not had those jobs if we had not done it. they brought us a long way to be competitive with the rest of the country in the world because of those earmarks. i can defend either side. a lot of it depends on what district year represent. some of these, berkeley in california, a cambridge, if you come from those type of districts, you do not need earmarks. you have institutions t