Claim: Says that under President John F. Kennedy, "government took up" 27 percent of the economy, and today it "consumes 37 percent."
Fact-check: Romney says government has grown from 27 percent to 37 percent of U.S. economy
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-08-12T00:00:00