REAL or FAKE: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?

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Joke-telling robots, expensive walking tunnels, Blackberries for smokers, and training American prostitutes to drink responsibly. What do these things have in common? They're all questionable government spending projects in a time when our economy is struggling and people can't get jobs....or, maybe we just made them up.

Put yourself to the test. See if you can outwit the Rebel Economist before she stumps you. So what is it: REAL or FAKE?
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Sources for projects featured in the video:
http://www.research.northwestern.edu/stimulus/hammond.html
http://www.wcjb.com/news/4125/3-4-million-of-federal-stimulus-money-to-pay-fo...
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2010/02/11/levs.free.blackberries.smoke...
http://prognosis.med.wayne.edu/article/grant-allows-research-to-study-link-be...

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[oneputtsteven]

@matmacat Nope.

Probably endangered turtles get across roads.

[guspratt]

$700000 stimulus grant was to create computer software that tells jokes , robotic labor in agriculture, dangerous Jobs done by robots etc... The joke part was to understand artificial intelegence. It will start to bring us to the level of other countries in developing technology. We used to be number 1 but are not even close anymore.

[Maxxlenoxx]

@vernoxpsycho Once you understand how the economy works (money created out of thin air) then you're able to understand the constant growth of spending. I'm not saying it's a good thing...

[bluetunder40]

WOW 

[fleetcenturion]

So many complaints about how this channel leans to the right, and absolutely nothing refuting its claims. It's detractors all begin their "arguments" with a form of, "Yeah, well, did you know that..." Sad, really.

When Bush spent money, it was baaaaaad, but now that Obama is spending it, it's good-- even when he spends it continuing a war he promised to end. See, it all makes perfect sense.

[fleetcenturion]

@dextertheninja Ah yes, because it's important that our government steal from the RIGHT people. Makes perfect sense.

[htedrom]

REAL OR FAKE: the government spent 5 times as much as the stimulus to invade two third world countries, and I bet this chick didn't say shit.

[biggirlzneedlove2]

Smh waste money on robots that tell jokes LOL for real useless stuff, but u got all these homeless ppl . USA (Babylon) is going down. Just dumb

[Penntogramus]

Where's the backup proof for all of this?

[threecards333]

@TheSoulOfColorado You are off by a factor of 1000, 2.5 trillion, which Obama accomplished a fourth of the time. Yay. Seriously we need to say no to unnecessary spending, to new wars, to special interests draining the treasury, and to pork in the government budgets. If democrats actually became straight and honest about their loyalities they would remain in power. But they will not so Republicans will win the next election.

[Nanaknows60]

Are we sick of it yet?



[trick29420]

$2.6 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to "help train Chinese prostitutes to 'drink responsibly on the job.'

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.