claim: "the government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. it's 30 percent bigger than it was when (barack) obama became president."
author: tom coburn
evidence_1: apr 28, 2016 ... his economy has certainly come further than most people recognize. the private  sector has added jobs for 73 consecutive months — some 14.4 million new jobs  in all — the longest period of sustained job growth on record. unemployment,  which peaked at 10 percent the year obama took office, the ...
evidence_2: mar 24, 2016 ... with president obama's gas tank now less than an eighth full, it's amazing where  he has taken black americans. ... “after seven years of president obama's  experiment with bigger government, more spending, and higher taxes, the result  is an economy that is underperforming and denying opportunity to ...
evidence_3: republicans may have a lock on congress and the nation's statehouses—and  could well win the presidency—but the liberal era ushered in by barack obama is  only ... thus, less than three years after the election of a president who had  inspired them like no other, young activists looked around at a country whose  people ...
evidence_4: mar 24, 2009 ... president bush created a medicare drug entitlement that will cost an estimated  $800 billion in its first decade. president obama has proposed a $634 billion  down payment on a new government health care fund. president bush increased  federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation.
evidence_5: text size. in mid-september, while president obama was fending off complaints  that he should have done more, done less, or done something different about the  ... at the end of world war ii, nearly 10 percent of the entire u.s. population was  on active military duty—which meant most able-bodied men of a certain age (plus  ...