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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 important. number 95 provides $259,000 of stimulus for the city of pasadena, california to buy two bus wh...

>> 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 losing money on 93 percent of the roots. maybe they spent it all shuttling this guy around or produc...

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 aren't directi fiction i don't u are going to have much to talk about. >> and sandra, thank you. i have a feeling the so-called stories are going to b...

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 the fiction i don't think they are going to have much to talk about. >> sean: sandra, thank you. i ha...

Indiana university secured more than $200,000 to study why men don't 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 fines. number 6, university of alaska at fairbanks, used $50,000 to send 11 students to copenhagen fo...