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Part of the effort to highlight stimulus projects involved the big green and white signs some of you have seen. if you are driving down the highwayen you see these things, they advertise a project paid for by your stimulus dollars. but we are learning that one of these signs cost $10,000 to make and install for a single sign. now on cert can that be? major garrett is much better at math than i am. he is live in washington with the latest. $10,000 for one sign? >> reporter: that's for a sign near the dulles airport in suburban virginia not too far from where i'm standing right now. let me tell ...

Controversy is a sign of the times. the administration knows if there was greater public appreciation for what the stimulus accomplished so far, this would not be an issue. but most americans don't believe the stimulus financing has improved the economy nearly as much as the administration sit would. because of that, this controversy appears to be take on a life of its own. megyn: that one sign costed $10,000. do you know what the overall cost is for these signs? maybe you could put out a web site and people could go check out the web site rather than spending thousands of dollars on the signs...

Gone into effect. but in this case here because it's so connected with federal power in the first place, it's difficult to say. >> reporter: the law does go into effect july 29. the judge said that she may not rule in this case prior to the law taking effect on july 29. remember this is just one of seven different lawsuits. we got our size outside the courthouse on those protests. if it gets heated we'll bring those pictures. megyn: we got some new polling on the stimulus act. the president should be -- critics say the president should be focused on jobs, and not fighting the arizona immigrati...

Together big apple by nearly a quarter this year. the white house has been quick to point out that the number does not include more than $100 million coming to the city through the stimulus act. the stimulus act, by the way, we're told was to create job growth in our country. not fund the counterterrorism budget cuts. new york all in, good for $245 million when you add it up, which is an increase of 24% from the bush administration. but that is not nearly enough for members of the new york delegation in d.c. on either side of the aisle. including democratic congressman, anthony wiener, who let...

>> front line. >> can i interrupt you there? when i look at that and i understand that and i see the massive extraction perpetrated against our country by the banks that caused the need for what you guys call the stimulus act, i call it the cover-up act. and all the state budget shortfalls as a result of the bank scam. and then you tell me you're creating jobs. when what you're really doing is using our tax money to fill in the hole to keep police and hospitals operating that would otherwise be put out of business because of what the banks did. but quite honestly, i feel we're completely off-t...