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If every unit of government did this, if your sidewalks that were being put in said paid for by the city of l.a., the bridge repair said paid for by the state of new york in the case of the stimulus projects paid for by the reinvestment recovery act of america it is ludicrous. we found out in i willly, my home state our state has spent $650,000 of the stimulus money just on these promotional signs. over 20 million dollars nationwide just in year within of the program and we are saying in is an easy cut. easy elimination of unnecessary spending of taxpayer dollars on a bunch of promotional fluf...

>> greta: i should say, i also put on gretawire.com the video you made that is also on youtube. a little bit of a youtube sensation i might add. >> thank you. >> greta: you want the safety signs the signs that say we are spending your stimulus money thank you don't want? >> absolutely. we are talking about the signs produced with stimulus dollars for the sole purpose of promoting stimulus projects. i appreciate you putting the youtube clip up there, that taxpayers and your viewers can go to the website that house republicans have established the you it can website, we have five proposals which...

Now, i propsed you last hour i would pop back with you to look at some of the sectors where we have the most jobs from exports. and the reason is so many people out there looking for jobs, right? if we're going to be doing this massive expansion of our exports, if they can actually pull it off, where will those sectors be? let's take a look here. we start off with the top sectors that are linked to exports right now in industries in it america. transportation equipment, 463,000 jobs currently directly linked to that. computers and electronics, 392,000 jobs. machinery is next. which is around t...

Give that to you unless you cut spending somewhere else. i told you the economics people inside the white house want more stimulus. they're worried about a slowdown, so they want more stimulus and they don't want to withdraw money from the federal budget. that's one argument. i think the other thing the white house is trying to do is show that they're rowing hard, okay? show that they're making an effort. there's still a lot of stimulus money -- there's going to be a lot of stimulus projects -- >> how much is left? there isn't that much left. >> they have a lot of projects in the pipeline this...

White house is trying to do is show that they're rowing hard, okay? show that they're making an effort. there's still a lot of stimulus money -- there's going to be a lot of the stimulus projects -- >> 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. it sort of has a woodstock tone to it. 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 ...