We're ten years from the start of the last recession. Should spending still be high to stimulate the economy, or are they perhaps not in a recession anymore? Th

We're ten years from the start of the last recession. Should spending still be high to stimulate the economy, or are they perhaps not in a recession anymore? This isn't a case of a government reducing spending in response to an economic downturn. It's a government INCREASING spending due to that downturn, and then not further increasing it when the economy recovers.