Posted on 01/25/2011 9:57:16 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Key defence officials are meeting on Tuesday to thrash out the details of how to make immediate savings to the 2011/2012 budget.
The RAF is bracing itself to its fleet of 134 Tornado GR4 fighter-bombers being slashed in half to just 60 jets to save up to £300 million a year.
Despite challenging the previous government over the helicopter shortages in Afghanistan a key decision will be the likely announcement to cut 12 extra Chinooks that were part of a package ordered by Gordon Brown.
Other important equipment programmes are going to be axed in what will be an embarrassing revision of last October’s Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The MoD has been forced into making the extra cuts after it miscalculated savings in the next financial year
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
But social spending soldiers on...
Those aircraft were sucking up precious funds that are desperately needed to buy the votes that keep incumbent politicians in office. We’re sure you understand.
The West is disarming because libs are spending all the money they confiscate from their citizens on social programs. Man the muzzies and the Chinese won’t even have to arm up that much to take them over.
China's "surrender or die" ultimatum will happen without media awareness. Nothing much will change in the immediate aftermath. The air will slowly come out of the US economy. Jobs and manufacturing will steadily move to China. The real estate bubble will collapse. The American standard of living will decline. China will grow at an amazing pace and come to dominate Asia....
Wait a minute - Bush already surrendered back in 2007, didn't he? :)
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