Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Hurrah for the Brits

The huge cuts in the British budget, the first one of the new Conservative-Liberal coalition Government, are quite a shock to the general public. Few realized how bad the state of the economy was, so much so that there were warnings from various places, including the US, that if the Brits didn't do something drastic they might actually go bankrupt. The deficit was up to 10% of the total budget and the payments on the loans to cover the deficit were the largest item in the budget. So the Government did the only sensible thing, that Conservatives love to do, they slashed public spending to allow the private sector to thrive.

Most of the Government Departments (Welfare, Health, Housing, etc.) are cut from 5-10%. One of the interesting cuts is the Defense Budget, that is about 3%, less than most other departments, in order to allow the British Army (reduced by 7,000 men) to continue to fight in Afghanistan. In order to achieve this reduction they cut out their current two aircraft carriers, that will be broken up for scrap. They also cut out the planes that usually land on such aircraft carriers. But, they have two new carriers already on order from the previous Government that they are unable to cancel. So they are going ahead to build these two new carriers that will become available in a few years, but they won't have any planes able to land on them for ten years. Now I ask you, is this the kind of Government the British people deserve. My answer is a resounding "yes!"

This is the great people who once had an Empirse, and who call a traffic circle a "roundabout", who call a divided highway a "dual carriageway", who call drunk driving "drink driving", who say " brilliant" when all they mean is great, and who call a beer a "pint" and then drink it warm. No wonder they have been slowly going downhill.

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