You're assuming that government spending is helping. What if it's the problem? To illustrate, imagine a hypothetical country where 90% of the working population is employed by the government to enforce needless bureaucratic rules on the 10% of the population that is actually engaged in producing goods and services people actually want. Because of the taxes needed to fund the 90% and the onerous business environment, the country is in a recession. What is the solution? (Hint, it's not to maintain government spending.)
A big government is a "luxury" that poor economies can't afford. This is an old problem. Over two hundred years ago, Jefferson complained that the King of England "has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."