claim: "our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years."
author: john boehner
evidence_1: u.s. public debt is far too high at more than three-quarters the size of the  economy—and growing federal spending, especially on entitlements, is quickly  driving debt to damaging levels. ... u.s. federal spending in 2013, combined with  depressed receipts from a weak economy, is on track to result in a deficit of $850  billion.
evidence_2: sep 18, 2014 ... modest perhaps, but in absolute terms, our debt is rapidly approaching $18  trillion (chart 1). japan's debt is approximately $13.4 trillion, however, its  economy is only one-fourth the size of america's. federal debt jan 1966 to jan  2014. if japan's debt-to-gdp ratio is more than two times greater than ...
evidence_3: apr 22, 2016 ... since this is an election year, you're hearing a lot about the size of the national  debt — and the financial imperative to expunge it before it gets passed on to our  kids and grandkids. donald trump recently told fortune that “if i had a choice of  taking over debt free or having $19 trillion — which by the way is ...
evidence_4: feb 14, 2011 ... president obama's budget, released monday, was conceived as a blueprint for  future spending, but it also paints the bleakest picture yet of the current fiscal year , which is on track for a record federal deficit and will see the government's  overall debt surpass the size of the total u.s. economy.
evidence_5: the terms national deficit and national surplus usually refer to the federal  government budget balance from year to year, not the cumulative total. a deficit  year increases the debt because more money is spent than is received; a surplus  year decreases the debt because more money is received than spent. there are  two ...