Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

You know, in the last, or two decades ago it was routine for leaders of foreign countries to come over here and say you guys have got to do something about these horrendous deficits because it's causing tremendous problems for the rest of the world, and we were lectured to all the time.

Hypothesis: I was common for foreign countries to say that you guys got to  do something about the horrendous deficits as they cause tremendous problems  for author