a frightening milestone

"...our national debt ($12.7 trillion today) is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy (about $15 trillion) in just two more years." -- Rep. John Boehner of Ohio in the Des Moines Register, March 24, 2010.

Hyperbole?  Not according to Politifact.org:  

[Rep. Boehner's] assertion that "our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years" is on target, according to the president's own Office of Management and Budget. So we rate his statement True.

 Relevant? I guess that's up to us to decide.