Come. Over the last five years benefits have risen twice as fast than sellers. As the Prime Minister agreed that once we have a duty, it cannot be fair that people are out of work enjoy bigger increases than those who [inaudible] [shouting] i think my honorable friend puts it extremely clearly, many people in our country have seen a pay freeze year after year after year. And yet, Welfare Benefits have gone up year after year after year. So in politics we face a choice. Do it go on putting those Welfare Benefits up, which actually is not helping those people who are in work on the pay freeze, or do we take the top tough the necessary decisions. Weve taken the tough the necessary decision. The only welfare minister labour, the honorable member, said that the approach simply as assistant once again he is right. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. May i congratulate the Prime Minister and the uk government on following the lead of the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament in its using
Is is what is the aspiration we have for the vexes problems, and the thought process and the first thing well do is ill use my conventional forces, and if that fails, use strategic forces. I tell you, its going to turn around. Dont think about it in a nuclear sense, but think strategic first, coming from great distance or no distance, to solve a problem. Last, think about the conventional forces and moving and huge costs of standing armies and moving them to the problem. Its just the reality we have to deal with, and how were going to do that, how are we going to afford it, those are the the questions, i think, that were going to, as an alliance, come to grips with and understand how to do that; ours, were not matching resources and capabilities with the security that we desire to have. Thank you. Other than that im in a good place. That leaves a good place. The leading expert brings a dose of reality, make it a concern, particularly such with europe. When you hear those speakers, part
Rebound, more of the spending needs to go to investment. That mean that there needs to be the extent question find a way to more increases deference cooperation. Let me wednesday perhaps anybody that knows me know that believed are spending on Nuclear Weapons. Probably isnt the smartest spending we can think about when it comes to the future of this alliance. These are weapons that are not likely to have any role in anything we do in 99. 999 of the time or perhaps even 100 of the time. Im happy to take your questions. [applause] thank you very much. That was just fantastic. If it remains focus on collective dissent for irrelevant for the future. You laid out the stark numbers about defense capabilities on defense and laid out the importance theres a lot to get in to here. I want to pick up a couple. I know, theres a lot of interested in the audience. Let me start where you ended on the nuclear point. Our next conversation on cartwright and others, former undersecretary, will in to Nucl
Them, to hear people talk about them and let me go into an environment and suddenly find i like Honey Boo Boo and im watching its. I think that is a huge part of the experience and i think it is sold short. I still think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of escapism and being able to roam around the tv jungle finding things they did not know were there. Ice i think people still love discovery. Every month or every year, i hear some show people are suddenly talking about that i do not think you could have ever imagines choosing. If you said, i want you to choose Honey Boo Boo, or a certain Food Channel Network, i do not think i have to predetermined that was my preference. The ability to stumble on them or to hear people talking about them and let me go into an environment and babble around in that and decide, i sort of like Honey Boo Boo, i think that is a huge part of the American Television experience. I think it gets sold short. I think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of e
The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe we need. Germany is the big kid on the block. It is militarily the big kid on the block. It doesnt have the expenditure on Nuclear Weapons that others have. It is transforming its military in to a force that is quite able to conduct the military operations. Its efforts in afghanistan are underappreciated. They are they have been a leader in the north. A true leader. They are the first and only countries so far to have stepped up and said they will be there not only other countries but the first