In a guest blog, Temple historian Bryant Simon writes that on a recent weekend trip after two days of eating "microwaved sausages and pre-made perfectly round egg circles" as part of the hotel's "free breakfast," he began to think — as the debate over the debt ceiling blared on televisions in the background — about the real costs of free and cheap: jobs, our environment, our health. "Isn't everyone — including me — indirectly paying for my 'free hot breakfast'"?