Major mistake to do that - deficit spending prevents a recession from getting worse.
Don't expect that argument to get any traction with Shaefer Light. People who espouse those kinds of naive beliefs have usually swallowed the whole package, and have thus rejected all forms of Keynesian economics. They believe the US government must always collect more in taxes than it spends (like a household budget!), but they hate taxes in all forms (taxes are theft!) and so they want to deconstruct the American government (drown it in a bathtub!) by returning to the gold standard (abolish the fed!).
These folks are completely blind to the ways in which American capitalism has created the most successfully prosperous nation in history by doing the exact opposite of all of these things they like to chant about at rallies. In part, I think it's motivated by a desire to return to the "good old days" when a poorly educated white man could comfortably raise four kids by working on the factory floor while his wife stayed home cooking and cleaning. Black and brown people weren't economic competition, gays were tolerated but only if they were discrete about it, and if your girl talked back you could always pop her one right in the kisser. To the moon, Alice!
But even that bigoted nostalgia is misplaced. Even then, the government pushed huge deficits in the name of military action, levied 90% tax rates on the upper tax bracket, and exerted authoritarian influence over popular media and culture. Technology was in the process of rapidly replacing "women's work" around the home with machines, sowing the seeds of gender normalization that started with Rosy the Riverter, blew right through Gloria Steinem, and will someday give us a female President. Capitalism ran wild with the support of debt-backed currency. This combination of high taxes, strong central government, a newly empowered work force, and barely-constrained wall street chicanery is exactly what created the America we all know and love, and which has drawn aspirational immigrants from around the world for generations.
Why mess with a good thing, folks? Come on in and play this awesome game with us, or don't. America values your freedom! But if you do, maybe dial back a little on that whole "I hate everything about America's ascendant rise to global economic superiority" rhetoric that we hear about so often on these forums from people like Shaefer Light.
Now if only we could figure out SOME way to use all of this success to also provide medical care to our least fortunate citizens... Hmmm, what has worked really well for us before?