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Jobs. a total of 55 jobs, 2 million per job. that just happened. bill: all right. is l.a. alone? >> well, l.a. is the largest city yet to go through an audit, but this coincides with the release this week of the white house's 100th best stimulus projects. they're looking back over the stimulus program that was launched 18 months ago, pulling out the 100 best performers. i've not seen the whole list but i've seen a couple of them. for example, they spent $30 million in new jersey, cleaning up an old electronics factory that created 68 new jobs. now, do the math, bill. that's a little bit better...

In other words, a software that will help you with your funny. >> and he's known as the jokey professor. not the nutty professor. and he's gotten -- the program is called computationnal activity. building a model -- (laughter) >> a lot of people aren't finding this funny. a lot of people aren't finding this funny. you have lawmakers -- all these people are losing jobs and we're spending our stimulus money to create this. so john mccain, obviously not happy about it, doesn't find it funny -- this is number 36 on his list of the top 100 most wasteful stimulus projects. why do we need to pay for ...

Rowing hard. show that they're making an effort. there's still a lot of stimulus money -- >> how much is left? there isn't that much left. >> they have a lot of projects in the pipeline this summer. two weeks ago they unveiled what they're calling the summer of recovery. they're going to have events all over the country. but the problem is going to be, if the surrounding economic news is so grim, then these projects, these stimulus projects rather than making people feel good are going to beg the question whether the stimulus approach was the right one to begin with. >> are republicans nervous...

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