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Apr. 18th, 2006 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribbanToday is the day the Swedish Minister of Finances presents the spring budget. As tradition dictates, this means he walks from the Department of Finance to the Parliament to hand it over (followed by protesters, supporters and members of the press.)
When I was a child the budget was a thick pile of paper. Then one year it was a floppy disc and everyone marvelled. Then it became a CD-ROM and this year it was a tiny memory stick around his neck:
I heard an interview with him on the morning radio. He said the situation feels somewhat unreal. Hehe. One year his predecessor was attacked with a cake in the face.
When I was a child the budget was a thick pile of paper. Then one year it was a floppy disc and everyone marvelled. Then it became a CD-ROM and this year it was a tiny memory stick around his neck:
I heard an interview with him on the morning radio. He said the situation feels somewhat unreal. Hehe. One year his predecessor was attacked with a cake in the face.
