Sen. McCain Admits Government Spending Plays Major Role In Helping Economy, Creating Jobs: GREAT FALLS, Montana — Government spending plays a key role in creating jobs and helping the economy. If that sentence sounds uncontroversial, it should. And yet, the GOP has argued since the day Barack Obama took office that government spending neither creates jobs nor helps the economy. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) inadvertently undercut the GOP [...]/p