[Check_Your_Premises]

Keep in mind, government expenditures are included in GDP figures. So the economy might suck, all things being equal, but if the government spends a bunch of cash...

...(which causes it's own growth, but not as efficiently because choices are made politically vs. economically)...

...it will manifest itself in a larger GDP.

Clear as mud?

[MegaSilver]

Keep in mind, government expenditures are included in GDP figures. So the economy might suck, all things being equal, but if the government spends a bunch of cash...

But shouldn't the resulting dead weight loss offset any growth in GDP due to larger government expenditures?