The Fierce Urgency of Pork

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Throwing money at education has never worked. And they are throwing about 150 billion at it.

Nah it never worked.
When Sputnik went up, the spending on science
education went up immediately. It directly led
to more engineers,scientists, doctors. We became
the leaders in so many major innovations directly
because of this. From computers, to medicine,
we are/were the best.

No effect whatsoever.