Highway Stimulus News Today

Ride on each of the boats scheduled trips. the mark twain national forest in missouri, number 97 on our count done. they are spending $450,000 tax dollars ong( 22 precast concrete toilets to be disbursed in the woods. using a tree or bush, still free. number 96 asks an important question what happens when mickey mouse spends too much time in the epcot beer garden florida atlantic university got more than $8,000 stimulus dollars to stud mice become disoriented after consuming alcohol. very import...

>> sean: welcome back >> welcome book to waste 102. we have cracked the top 20 on our count down. the wasteful spending gets more outrageous. >> number 19 takes us to kentucky. 24 million in highway stimulus contracts were issued to companies associated with a contractor under indictment for bribery. the way the administration is doling out the money are bribes even necessary? amtrak comes in at number 18. congress awarded the money to another another $1.3 billion in sub citied des despite them ...

Facility to maintain the woodlands water taxi service. only 100 people use it a day at an annual loss of 200 thousand for the city. >> that brings us to number 80. sandra smith? >> in case you are confused about how all of the stimulus money is being spent, the stimulus is taking care of that, too. a maryland company received more than $363,000 to develop real life stories about all of the jobs created the tim lus. unfortunately if these stories arent directi fiction i dont u are going to have m...

Spent on a new facility to main tan the woodlands water taxi service. only 100 people use the taxies everyday at an annual loss of more than $200,000 for the city. that breaks us to number 80 and sandra smith. >> reporter: in case you are confused about how all of the stimulus money is being spent, the stimulus is taking care of that too. a maryland company has received more than $363,000 to develop real life stories about all the jobs created by the stimulus. unfortunately, if the stories and t...

Indiana university secured more than $200,000 to study why men dont like to beware condoms. stimulus jokes aside for the cost of a six-pack you can go to any bar in the country and find out the answer. number 7, massachusetts highway division has handed out millions in stimulus money to construction companies that have been convicted of defrauding the government in the past. one case, a company that still owes the government tens of millions in fines can use the stimulus money to pay back the fi...

Indiana university un got 250,000 to study why men dont like to wear condoms. now with the stimulus jokes aside you can buy a particulars pack and find out the answer to that one. the highway division happeneded out millions of dollars that have been victim of de frayeding the patient. if they still owe tens of millions of dollars in fines to use the stimulus money to pay back the fines. number 6 university of alaska at fairbanks used 50,000 stimulus dollars to send 11 students to cope enhagan...

Why pay if the government will eight million dollars of a 26 million dollar project to rebuild a bridge funded by the stimulus. the kansas city government already had it fully funded until the stimulus funds came along. moving on we check with the host of varney and company stuart varney. >> reporter: number 60 in the waste, 102 list. st. barnabas hospital, bronx, no. they gotteny million dollars from the stimulus plan this is a job kraoerb shun story. it starts out well, but may end in tears. t...

More than $200,000 of your money will send students to africa to study why africans vote the way they do in their elections. it is going to create seven jobs, but they are in africa. monkeys getting high on your tax dollars thanks to our grant at number 56. $72,000 to wake forest university to study long term affects of monkeys who are addicted to cocaine. number 55 for the birds. university of oklahoma received $90,000 to study how male and female birds care for their offspring and how it compa...

$8 million of a $26 million project to rebuild the bridge is being funded by the stimulus. the kansas city government already had it fully funded until the stimulus funds came along. >> moving on we check in with a host of varney and company with stewart varney. >> number 60 in the waste 102 list. this is saint barnabas hospital in new york. they got machine from the stimulus plan. this is a job creation story. it starts out well but may end in tears. the parking lot here is a mess. for 25 years...

The problem is, there already is a bridge that connects these two cities with several walk paths and sidewalks. that one isnt good enough? it is not like we are asking to you cross the delaware the old-fashioned way. number 22, $500,000 going to duke university to send 10 undergrads to study costa ryyan rainforests every summer for six years. duke cant afford to send its own kids to summer camp? talk about ing our money. coming in at 21, ohio is using one million of your stimulus dollars to tell...