Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Brown Moves To Reduce Nuclear Deterrent

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said today at a UN security meeting that the British government is going to scrap most of their nuclear power in an effort to remain financially solvent over the next 25 years.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8270092.stm

Let's do a quick comparison. The UK is almost 9 trillion dollars in debt with a population of 61 million. If the United States spent the same amount proportional to our current population we would be almost 45 trillion in debt...oh wait we are already 55 trillion in debt when you take social security and medicare into account. We are actually deeper in debt than the British, and they are having serious problems maintaining FOUR nuclear submarines. If they are having this kind of financial issue when they are actually less in debt than we are, with substatially less obligations, why are we even considering cap and trade, healthcare, cash for clunkers, auto industry bailouts, banking bailouts...Does anyone remember what happened when the Soviet Union collapsed economically? I think a lot of nukes were sold to various "rogue" nations, terrorist groups etc, their entire infrastructure collapsed, crime and corruption became rampant, and various military warlord basically divided up the country into fiefdoms. Have we become so arrogant and ignorant to feel this could never happen in America? 


Gordon Brown summed up that arrogance which Obama also seconded"We reject unilateral nuclear disarmament for ourselves precisely because the world cannot end up in a situation where responsible powers get rid of their weapons, but the danger of nuclear proliferation by other powers remains."


We gave up all right to consider ourselves responsible with the last bailout.

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