claim: "our country's got this huge debt, and (president barack) obama says raise taxes and keep spending more."
author: crossroads gps
evidence_1: jul 14, 2011 ... president barack obama and congress are in intense discussions on raising the  debt ceiling -- the legal limit on how much money the government can borrow.  after hitting the debt ... debt worries her. "our country's got this huge debt," the ad  says, "and obama says raise taxes and keep spending more?
evidence_2: jul 11, 2011 ... democrats roar that president obama inherited a catastrophic economic mess,  that this mess will take time to clean up, and that our massive deficit is therefore  president bush's fault. ... president obama signed an $800 billion spending  increase at the same time that gdp and tax collections tanked.
evidence_3: oct 19, 2016 ... that's the net amount the country had borrowed from washington through the  bush years. the gross national debt now stands at $19.7 trillion. that's an  increase of $9.1 trillion — not quite a doubling, but pretty close. related: what  trump and clinton want to do to your tax bill. while the large increase in ...
evidence_4: may 4, 2012 ... when it comes to increasing the national debt, president barack obama has  done more than his 43 predecessors combined. well, at least ... says president  barack obama "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than  the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined.
evidence_5: mar 24, 2009 ... president barack obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the  deficit by half by the end of his term. but as ...... (check us treasury website and  cbo website to verify) obama has been unprecedented in his spending and  increase of national debt – enough to get our countries credit rating ...