These days about 40.75% of GDP is government spending. So if government spending increases by 5%, that means GDP increases by better than 2%. But you’re no better off, unless you can find a way to pay your mortgage with your share of the benefit from a bridge to nowhere.
Yup.
When the Republicans win the WH and both houses of congress and begin spending cuts, that's when TSHTF, eh?
They'll be dumped in two years and replaced with Democrats who (increase spending) will send us into an inflationary spiral and possibly hyperinflation, eh?