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October 09, 2008
Pennies a day
The Parliamentary Budget Office has produced figures estimating the cost of Canada's Afghan mission; expect Canada's "progressive" media to let you know every Canadian household will have been billed the equivalent of $1500 by 2011. I also expect I am going to be hearing this number over and over again from every compassionate, anti-war person I know whose compassion strangely fails to extend to the women and children of Afghanistan or, indeed, any Muslim woman or child who might appreciate some small portion of our liberty.
The Torch helpfully breaks down that $1500 further; it works out to 13.7ยข per Canadian per day. That, my friends, is the best money I will have spent today on anything. Follow the link for the full (illustrated) analysis and a list of just some of the things our money is buying, not least of which is our freedom.
* humanitarian food assistance to more than half a million Afghans in 2007 alone
* more than 530 Community Development Councils elected in 9 districts, which facilitated more than 700 community projects completed, including improvements to transportation, water supply and sanitation, irrigation, power supply, education, health, and agriculture
* maternal health care professionals being trained in emergency obstetric care and monitoring
* approximately 350,000 children being vaccinated against polio
* measles and tetanus vaccination program reached more than 76,000 children and 63,000 women
* non-food kits (teapots, soap, gas stoves, towels, buckets, kitchen sets, blankets, floor mats, sweaters and health kits) supplied to 1,500 families
* more than 30,000 Afghans received functional literacy training and more than 4,000 received vocational training throughthe World Food Programme in 2007 alone
* More than 5,000 people (the majority of them women) have received literacy training through UNICEF
As Damian points out, those figures are just for Kandahar.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 9, 2008 04:19 PM
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Like ... we're going to see those stats in an ongoing series of articles in the MSM. What's the response of all the leftards?
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at October 10, 2008 02:10 AM
