It’s all perception. That perception is accurate if you have a Keynesian understanding of economics. It is the prevailing thought.

If government spending is what’s driving the economy, they are only able to do so in an inflationary environment. The inflate the bubble. If they don’t… it collapses. In that sense, the view is very accurate.

We’re just taking about two opposing systems of economics. Don’t forget that Keynes was a socialist.