David Walker: “No, there really isn't. We have to raise the debt ceiling because the fact is we don't know what the markets would do.”

I think frankly what the president ought to think about doing with regard to the Affordable Care Act is that he ought to use executive powers to not enforce the penalties associated with the individual mandate for a year.

I believe that there is an opportunity that you can get administration support for something along these lines.

The cruellest tax of all is inflation. You have no choice, you don't vote, it just happens, right.

If the overhead was 25 percent lower in the Pentagon, we'd be 50 percent more productive.