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 compares to humans raising their children. number 54 over one million dollars to penn state for fossil research in argentina. hang on a second i thought the stimulus was supposed to create jobs in america? if you are starting to feel like your money is going into a black hole, it is. number 53 gives over one million dollars to vanderbilt university to research super massive black holes. they study how they are formed and influenced by galaxy
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 for the failed climate change conference using 54,000 pounds of carbon dioxide to make the trip. number five, $15,000 on a storytelling festival in orem, utah maybe one day someone will write a horror story
sean: welcome back to waste 102. we ve cracked the top 20. the wasteful spending gets more outrageous from this point on. number 19 takes us to kentucky. 24 million dollars in highway stimulus contracts were issued to companies associated with a contractor under indictment for bribery. come on here, the way this administration is doling out your money are bribes even necessary? number 18, congress awarded the money to another 1.3 billion dollars in subsidies despite them losing money on more than 93% of its roots. maybe they spent it all shuttling this guy around or producing this magazine. who says that crime doesn t pay? a 21.8 million dollar stimulus project to wide part of arizona s i-10 was awarded to
spruce up columbia park 12 salmon sculptures were erected along canal drive in kennewick jobs created? zero. wednesday night number 100, syracuse university. is this what they meant by stimulus? $219,000 to study the hook-up patterns of college females as part of the women s health project this is supposed to estimate lit the economy not college girls. number 95, the $95,000 used to buy new blackberries for have advisers in the providence police department. they say it is going to help fight crime. maybe it would be easier to fight crime if they used the money to hire more cops. moving on numbers 98 to 91. oklahoma city where 1.8 million dollars being spent on maintenance for cruise boats on the oklahoma river. fewer than a dozen passengers ride on each of the boats
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. the parking lot here is a mess. for 25 years they ve been thinking about fixing it, you could never find a space doctors and nurses have a hard time working at this hospital. that 20 million dollars from the stimulus plan will be used to bill a five-story parking garage. space for 605 cars, temporary work for 173 construction workers. here the problem, at the moment, the parking lot