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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

NATO: Death by a thousand little spending cuts?

E-3A AWACS (NATO)The sobering reality became clear before the NATO summit even began.

For a day and a half, the leaders of the world’s biggest economies hunkered down at the woodsy presidential retreat of Camp David, huddled around circular tables sharing frank details of the fragile state of the global economy and how in Europe, the situation could get much, much worse.

There, Prime Minister Stephen Harper slept in a small rustic cabin named Rosebud, where Soviet security guards were housed when Nikita Khrushchev met with Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.

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1 comment:

  1. It is not death by a thousand little spending cuts as much as it death by hundred of thousands of overspending on other less important items and programs.

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