Originally Posted By: Derid
Please, tell me how our stimulus efforts are not Keynesian and how I am stretching the word.


What you say is not exactly wrong, but main point of Keynesians is that economic return on $1 of spending could be more than $1 (concept:spending multiplier). According to Keynesian thinking you should be able to get out of recession only with stimulus and never run out of money. This coincidentally increases %GDP of government spending, but this isn't the main point but rather side-effect.

You can have stimulus without subscribing to this ideology, typically with infrastructure spending.

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