Is Consumption a Stimulus to Economic Growth?

Keynesians advocate for the concept that consumption is a stimulus to economic growth and that economic crises were due to insufficient effective demand.

A reversal of ends and means

But it is a reversal of ends and means, as well as a confusion of cause and effect. Consumption is the end goal, while economic growth is the means. You cannot try to raise GDP or promote development by stimulating consumption. Doing so gets the causality backward.

The common sense says when economic growth raises incomes, meaning more goods and services are produced, increased consumption becomes possible.

Money itself is not purchasing power

Government usually prints massive money and carries extensive infrastructure projects to stimulate the economy. That stimulus will not increase people's income because income is not the received money itself, but the goods and services that the income can later exchange for.

We reasoned that purchasing power is not money itself in the critique that Keynesians do not appreciate demand

Government is not the solution but the problem

The actual logic is quite the opposite to what Keynesians advocate. Government stimulus creates hollow market prosperity which followed by bubble burst, and it eventually becomes an economic crisis. In such a crisis, resorting to government intervention for rescue is like adding fuel to the fire, only creating a new round of crisis, but more intense.

Government investments are always excessive. Besides the excessive spending, the government largely creates pseudo-GDP.