Fascinating little snippet from NYTimes on Japanese Stimulus

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I disagree with many of the premises of Us-Japan comparisons (for one thing, Japan's unemployment rate peaked at only 6.5%--  and this was 12 years after the bursting of the bubble), there is one in thing in this article that no one seems to be arguing right now:

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Basically, education and social services can actually be more beneficial than infrastructure spending in certain cases. Both parties here at home seem to assume the opposite.

yeah, but what gives the quickest short-term boost?