Being Milton Friedman

The deminers in the field are much maligned, blamed for vehicle breakdowns and unnecessary fuel expenditures. The breakdowns may well be their doing, but it appears that none are outside of the course of the typical wear and tear a vehicle covering these miserable roads would suffer.

The sky high fuel costs it seems are the doing of the office staff plundering and using the field staff as scape goats. I've also realized that the field staff have not received an increase in their feeding allowances since 2005, forgotten by the diesel addled brains of the administrative staff long ago.

You can't arbitrarily up a feeding allowance, however, and recalling similar issue my past organizaiton faced with staff in Cambodia, I once again donned my Milton Friedman cap and broke out the calculator and various readings I could find on economics and Sudan and calculated the Consumer Price Index inflation rate for the last 4 years. For many of you the notion of myself engaged in any sort of math related practice that will have some sort of an impact on others well beings is, well, probably nothing short of appaling.

Well, I'll have you all know that I am quite confident in my calaculations. Henceforth, each deminer should receive an additional 3 pounds per day for their feeding allowance. I actually rounded it up to three pounds because I am such a generous guy.

I am very proud of my CPI calculating accomplishment, now I just have to figure out how to catch the fueling theiving office folks red handed.