Jacob J. Lew: “it's critical, if we want to stick to our principles, that we have a single, united approach to a country”

I totally agree, and I was trying to indicate in my response earlier that the risk is being borne by taxpayers on an ongoing basis and the conservatorship is not over.

I have been trying to deal with it as a crisis that we need to deal with on a bipartisan basis.

The real goal is not to restructure the debt. The real goal is to get back to economic growth.

If you have a house on a block with blighted housing on it, if you do not remove the blighted housing, your chances of staying above water are really tough.