There’s a brilliant debate going on among the commenters at the invaluable website Polipundit about why, in fact, the $200 billion in federal reconstruction money for the Gulf Coast will not constitute “pork” as the term is generally understood. Since the money will actually be used for productive purposes — i.e., building up places that will themselves start generating dollars for the economy and doing so by making tangible things like buildings and roads and infrastructure — this effort bears little relation to, say, the creation of a Potato Museum in Rep. Don Young’s district.