The other option is that the person takes a longer loan (5+ years) to have smaller monthly payments.  Then they overpay each month.  Thus the car is paid off sooner.  That's what I did.  I never had any intention of making 5 years of payments.  But I made my loan payments small in case I ran into money issues.  That wa...more

The amount of rooms or the actual expenditures are almost irrelevant.  If, like the author said, they rented every single room AND were charged the most expensive rate ($3900) they couldn't rack up that much.  So the hotel or whoever had to had bumped the rates to something astronomical because its a GOVERNMENT CONTRAC...more

It's all about expectations.  What would an iPhone/iPad user expect to do on a watch sized screen?  Take a call, play an MP3 and look at the time.  That's about it.  The screen would be microscopic - you aren't playing any games or bringing up a map or much else on a screen that small.  Pics would be useless.  Video?  ...more

Why would he need protection?  He's a trained Navy SEAL.  People shooting at him should be nothing new.  So should we expect to protect every other soldier in history that killed someone in fear of retribution?  Should we guard the pilots that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?  I feel for his plight in terms of health car...more

I do like the Budget tool mentioned in the article.  It really brings to light some of the things out there still to pay for and things that can be done (whether or not the numbers are accurate).  I just wish it offered more choices in terms of cuts: A flat cut of 10% to ALL government budgets or a Congressional direct...more

I won't pretend to understand the economics and accounting details at the core of all this, but it boggles the mind how certain 'sacred cows' are automatically off the board when it comes to spending cuts.  Do we really need to spend ~$700 billion on the Dept of Defense per year?  Why do we have bases and soldiers all ...more