Leaders like President Obama,however, argue that the recession would have been much worse without the spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

"And you have got an economy that his recovery plan has kept from being much worse and that will be growing."

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"The banks that came closest were Citibank, Bank of America and if those had not been supported by the government, I think it might have caused a cascading crisis that would have been much worse than the one we actually had,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20