@Akuma,
First off "The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up." is a direct quote of John Keynes so how am I misrepresenting his views? Realistically, keynesian economics is not that much different from welfare except that everyone knows that it forces people to do unproductive work, and everyone knows that the money they're currently receiving is temporary. This causes two problems, since the people are working they are prevented from taking lower paying jobs elsewhere, and since they know the work is temporary they are amazingly careful with their money so (no matter how much you pay them) spending doesn't return to normal.
Now, investment in education is valueable when it is done well but it can't be called a economic stimulus to provide a boost to a sinking economy. On top of this, the problems in the US public education system are far deeper than simply funding being that the US ranks very high in per capita spending on education (#2 in 2001 : http://www.oclc.org/reports/escan/economic/educationlibraryspending.htm) and gets outperformed by several countries which spend a fraction as much.
