London's Burning

[TheMercenary]

I guess I just don't see how these attempted solutions are "US solutions". If as you say they have been dealing with attempts to revamp the system countless times then the history of dealing with the issues occurred long before our current economic crisis. You socialized system of public support has been around a long time before we began to dabble in it. The attempted solutions are uniquely UK based and as we see the other EU economies unravel it is obvious that the UK is not alone in realizing that the cost of their social systems are breaking the bank and have been doing so for a long time. It is like finding a small bit of rot in a piece of wood, sticking a screwdriver in it and finding your whole house has been eaten by termites.