# Did Obama add 6 trillion to the deficit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 22, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266 "2012-01-22T02:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266/56 "2012-01-24T21:18:20Z")
> [@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](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/volcker-sidelined-as-obama-reshapes-economic-panel-for-business-outreach.html) Another was that for [PERAB](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Recovery_Advisory_Board) 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 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266)._