Did Obama add 6 trillion to the deficit?

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@Bryan_Ekers

I dunno, what measures do you think were required, or even recommended?

In a nutshell, Obama chose/sided/agreed with/liked/decided to go with Summers instead of Volcker.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/volcker-sidelined-as-obama-reshapes-economic-panel-for-business-outreach.html

Another was that for PERAB they decided to do irrelevant things (in my opinion, of course) as per:

According to a March 25, 2009 press briefing by OMB Director Peter Orszag, the administration charged PERAB with proposing approaches to three budget related tasks: simplifying taxation, closing tax loopholes and reducing tax evasion, and reducing corporate welfare.

/* what I meant is tasks outlined above are not really economic policy things typically expected from the government in times of crisis