Saturday, 1 November 2008

Shopping List

Milk £1.20

Bread 75p
Butter
Bailing out UK banks: £250 billion

Providing aid to roughly 4 million starving Zimbabweans: £70 million
Olive oil 500 ml £2.50
Immediate aid to 2004 Tsunami victims from UK government (> 250,000 killed, many more made homeless): £75 million

War in Iraq (Immediate costs incurred by US): Order £300 billion
Estimated eventual cost to US of Iraq invasion: Order £500 billion -£3 trillion
Parsnips

chee
paracetamol

Estimated cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goals when they were first proposed: £20 - £30 billion per year for 16 years = < £600 billion in total (to be shared among all the nations signed up to the MDGs)

Chicken wings £2.50 ish Curry sauce (x2 Monday and Fri)

Overall costs of Iraq war to US (estimated by Pentagon prior to invasion) ~ £25 billion

Cost of antiretroviral drugs for management of AIDs in Nigeria, approx £34 per person per month
Replacing Trident nuclear arsenal: £20 billion

Deoderant for Tim £1.50 (maybe)

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