A little arithmetic, and a question re David Kay

[karlschneider]

He has 1200 people searching for the elusive WMDs, has spent $300 milliion and wants $600M more to continue for from 6 to 9 months. Okay,
let's do a little easy math (where's the damn calculator when you need it?.......ah, here it is)

Let's split the difference on the time-table and call it 7.5 months.
So, 600 million divided by 7.5 is ...golly, exactly 80 million bucks a month!

Now we will divide that by the 1200 people and, Voila! It comes out to
$66,666.67 a month for each of these guys. And we can translate that into an annual figure - lessee, multiplied by 12 = $800,000 a year.

Not bad. Where do I apply?

Oh, wait, I can hear someone saying "But they need equipment and...uh, 'stuff. Okay, fine. Let's say we buy every one of them a new Toyota pickup truck. A decent one is around $15,000 so 1200 would cost
$18 million and let's say each inspector needs another $10,000 worth of pencils, paper, digital camera, tape recorder, etc. That's another $12 million, so that plus the truck money comes to $30M. That subtracted from 600M is $570M.

Now using the same methods as above we get:

A paltry 76 million a month.

Or $63,333.33 a month for each intrepid seeker.

Sign me up.
:eyes:

[dutchdemocrat]

1. "Crucifixions to left... that's it... nope hanging to the right."

"Hurry up then, COME ON - Okay and what are you?"

"Ummm... I am free."

"Free? Well alright then... go on."

"Naahhh I was jus' kiddin'. I'm crucifixion."

"oh you naughty bugger you, off to the left."

Monty Python and the Life of Brian just jumped into my head for some strange reason. Call a momentary lapse of reason.

:)

[karlschneider]

2. Heh...that's nothing. You should hear about some of the weird dreams

I've been having the last few month. on second thought, you shouldn't.
:D