U.S. Tsunami Aid Cont'd

More from the U.N. Dweeb:

On Fox News Sunday Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator, said that the U.S. military assets assisting in the tsunami relief effort were "worth their weight in gold".

"We are getting very valuable assistance at the moment from many of our partners, especially those who can bring in military assets. The U.S. military assets are really worth weight in gold now because the helicopters and the airplanes and their capacity to make fresh water and so on really adds to the enormous efforts from all of the nongovernmental organizations, the U.N. agencies and so on."

By my calculations the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and it's battle group weigh a combined 142,928 tons. The price of gold is $429 per ounce as of this morning, giving us a whopping $2,002,992,992,000.00 in aid from the U.S. in just this one resource.

As Glenn Reynolds would say, heh. (Via The Forest For The Trees)