Jeff, I'm new to all of this but I'm also in a military area and it seems they are eligible for loans that have terms not available to a civilian.

Defense Department civilian executives earning more than $150,000 went from 1868 to OVER 10,000, and the Department of Transportation, which had only ONE person earning over $170,000 in December 2007 now has 1690!

None of those things have any positive technology spin-offs for the economy.From an economic perspective, the possible civilian technological benefits of military research is not a good argument because we would rather have the money focused on civilian technology than on military technology that could serendipitously have a civilian benefit.Having said that, I do like the idea of any technology that would save lives - either of our soldiers or of innocent civilians who so often get killed and are called "collateral damage."

I don't think it matters if some of the inhabitants are tenants, in fact condos should be prime renting properties.

In the past, the government built all of these units for shipyard workers and now they're being rented out to civilians.

The inventory - most current inventory is made up of REO's (which are in large part, not lender qulified properties in conditions which are 100% inhabitable) or short sales which take months or even a year to get completed.

Let's round up the number of police to 1 million to make it an even 4 million of all armed government personnel.The armed civilian populace is between 117 and 150 Million.

I have to assume that you aren't familiar with what the government is allowed to do (and in many cases does) in terms of background checks for both military and civilian employees?

The landlord will have the burden to prove that your tenancy was changed for reasons other than your having exercised your rights (M.G.L. c. 186, § 18).â€â€œThe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that when a landlord fails to maintain a dwelling in habitable condition, a tenant may properly withhold a portion of the rent from the date the landlord has notice of this breach of warrant of habit-ability.

The whole incident in which 10 civilians died is still in the fog.