So does government spending stimulate the economy? YES and here is the numbers

[HappySqurriel]

These economic multipliers are 100% BS because they consider the positive multiplier effect from increasing the spending of the government while completely ignoring the negative multiplier effect of the spending lost from taxation; or the recurring negative multiplier from spending lost paying the debts of prior spending.

Effectively, government spending (in particular government social spending) is effectively the same as taking water from one bucket and spreading it across multiple buckets using a leaky ladle