David Walker: “It's time to get real.”

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.

they should be focused on making sure that we get our structural deficits under control and our debt-to-GDP down to reasonable and sustainable levels.

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

I don't think it should be business of S&P or any rating agency to tell a sovereign nation how to put its finances in order.