Pork Report: Milwaukee

Already we have pork reports from the so-called "stimulus" bill, and it hasn't even been passed yet. This one's from Milwaukee, via NRO:

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via Greg Mankiw’s indispensable blog:

Milwaukee Public Schools would reap $88.6 million over two years for new construction under the economic stimulus package just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives - even though the district has 15 vacant school buildings, a large surplus of property and no plans for new construction....The amounts for MPS are particularly eye-catching, and not only because they are the largest in the state. Enrollment is declining every year, and the last major wave of construction in MPS - the $102 million Neighborhood School Initiative launched in 2000 - resulted in projects that are underused, have not met enrollment projections or have closed.

We've got to redo this bill in the Senate or we will be paying the price for years--generations to come. How will our children pay for their children's schools if we pile up this level of debt for nothing.

Jack Higgins cartoon.

More--Harvard Economics Professor Greg Mankiw refers us to this in the WSJ today--lessons from past crises, higher debt and higher unemployment are sure outcomes--all the more reason to focus, focus on a real stimulus that creates the jobs we need.