Obama did exactly the opposite of what should have been done. He surrounded himself with people who exacerbated the problem. You have a person who has cancer and instead of removing the cancer, you give him tranquilizers. When you give tranquilizers to a cancer patient, they feel better but the cancer gets worse. Total debt is higher than it was in 2008 and unemployment is worse.    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Sept 24, 2010 in Montreal, author of “The Black Swan”