- government programs that automatically spend more money in a recession and less money when the economy is growing, without anyone having todecideto change the amount of spending. At the moment, automatic stabilizers play a relatively small role in the US because they're not funded nearly as much as other programs. Do you think we should expand our automatic stabilizers, or do you think it is better for the government to have todeliberately decidewhether it wants to spend more money in a recession? Give at leastone reasonfor your answer.