UK slashes armed forces by 10 percent

[VaYank5150]

Cameron's government, which came to power in May, announced the reductions a day ahead of revealing how it plans to cut spending across the board in the face of deficits.

"Defense cannot continue on unaffordable footing," the government said in a statement explaining the Strategic Defense and Security Review, as the exercise was called.

UK slashes armed forces by 10 percent - CNN.com

Maybe we CAN learn a thing or two from our friends across the pond?

 

[The T]

Good for THEM...Maybe WE can pull our bases away from our friends and SEE if they up their level>?

My bet is that they would be forced to.

 

[topspin]

Can we get a tea party leader behind some of these smart cuts

 

[Revere]

Across the board.

You could cut defense spending 20% and the welfare state here would not stand still for 5% cuts of their budgets.

 

[VaYank5150]

Good for THEM...Maybe WE can pull our bases away from our friends and SEE if they up their level>?

My bet is that they would be forced to.

I am with you. I am hoping the GOP has included foreign soil base closures as part of cost cutting measures in their "Contract Hit on America". What do you think?

 

[WillowTree]

Cameron's government, which came to power in May, announced the reductions a day ahead of revealing how it plans to cut spending across the board in the face of deficits.

"Defense cannot continue on unaffordable footing," the government said in a statement explaining the Strategic Defense and Security Review, as the exercise was called.

UK slashes armed forces by 10 percent - CNN.com

Maybe we CAN learn a thing or two from our friends across the pond?

They gonna pay them unemployment for 99 weeks? and then extend it? Then why slash them in the first place you bigg asssed DUmmie.

 

[VaYank5150]

Across the board.

You could cut defense spending 20% and the welfare state here would not stand still for 5% cuts of their budgets.

How would anyone know? When was the last time defense spending was cut by 20%? I don't even believe Clilnton made those sort of cuts.

 

[NYcarbineer]

They can only do that because wasting money on excessive unnecessary militarism is not mandated by their Constitution, like us...

...we have to overspend on the military. As it is written...

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Cameron's government, which came to power in May, announced the reductions a day ahead of revealing how it plans to cut spending across the board in the face of deficits.

"Defense cannot continue on unaffordable footing," the government said in a statement explaining the Strategic Defense and Security Review, as the exercise was called.

UK slashes armed forces by 10 percent - CNN.com

Maybe we CAN learn a thing or two from our friends across the pond?

What? Get a benevolent world power to catch our backs? Who might that be? There's a reason Canada's got a 60,000 man army as well..

Come on.

 

[topspin]

Canada is a lot less facist than we are by a long shot.

 

[Revere]

Across the board.

You could cut defense spending 20% and the welfare state here would not stand still for 5% cuts of their budgets.

How would anyone know? When was the last time defense spending was cut by 20%? I don't even believe Clilnton made those sort of cuts.

Pick a number.

Would not matter how much you cut defense spending.

No other constituency would tolerate cuts.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

C'mon. Let's cut it all by 20 percent, welfare, education, entitlements, military.

 

[uscitizen]

Can we get a tea party leader behind some of these smart cuts

Is the Pope Jewish?

 

[VaYank5150]

Across the board.

You could cut defense spending 20% and the welfare state here would not stand still for 5% cuts of their budgets.

How would anyone know? When was the last time defense spending was cut by 20%? I don't even believe Clilnton made those sort of cuts.

Pick a number.

Would not matter how much you cut defense spending.

No other constituency would tolerate cuts.

OK. I will try one last time to get a straight answer out of you. When was the last time the GOP took up cutting our defense budget by 5%?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

When was the last time the dems ever cut welfare, entitlements by .005 percent? Cut em all by 20 percent.

 

[The T]

C'mon. Let's cut it all by 20 percent, welfare, education, entitlements, military.

Welfare? Can control it. Lower Level safety net...Not a hammock.

Education? DOE must GO. Control goes back LOCAL where it should be versus making States BEG for their own money...

Entitlements? Why have them in the first palce...especially when it comes to Government employment. Pay for it like the rest of us.

Military? Public safety? Only Mandated item you write of. Sure hold Contractors liable...but cut it? NOPE. We've been bitten already or wasn't the fiasco transition between George W. Bush and Clinton a learned lesson?

Clinton Cut it back...Carter cut it back...we suffered as a result. NO GO on Military.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Who cares what the UK does. Honestly.

We know they are even more liberal than our liberals, so therefore care even less about thier Vets than ours do.

They are just avoiding riots, b/c they know thier military men and women love thier cuntry so much that they chose to put thier lives in danger. So it's only natural to know that these honorable people won't riot in the streets like the libs in other countries are doing.

My heart goes out to thier Veterans and families. I know what the liberals will do to you.

 

[VaYank5150]

When was the last time the dems ever cut welfare, entitlements by .005 percent? Cut em all by 20 percent.

I'll buy that. Now, what do we do with all of the immediately homeless people that will fill our streets? I'm just asking.

 

[Revere]

When was the last time the dems ever cut welfare, entitlements by .005 percent? Cut em all by 20 percent.

Never going to happen.

Doesn't matter when the last time the GOP cut defense, because Democrats have never cut anything, except defense.

Again, across the board cuts are mental masturbation.

 

[ClosedCaption]

C'mon. Let's cut it all by 20 percent, welfare, education, entitlements, military.

...and continue the slide into being the one of the dumbest nations in the world