It was very breezy so it kept the "state bird" from drawing up too much blood.
The worst though was the flies. The big horse and deer flies. Ouch do they hurt. We used a lot of OFF bug repellent.

This was a perfect weekend. Wow. This is what summer is about.
Had time to clean up from the recent storms. My pick-up was stacked with branches.
Luckily none of my trees were pushed over like some of my neighbors.

Well back to work tomorrow and continue with my symantec endpoint protection roll-out. What a pain in the butt that is.

Keep crunching all! We are doing very well.

So envy their prices

Litre of gas cost 1.59€ here, so it makes 9,6 US$ per your gallona.

Well, in another hand, we have highest taxes on Europe, so it is not so bad after all, hey wait..........



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Price on car fuel is high simply because taxation, fuel tax is 72%, so it really does not lower price of fuel very much, even if price of crude oil will collapse. If crude price collaps, then current price level 1,6€/l would change to it’s regular 1,4€/l, and that is still double comparing your shock prices. Fuel has always been very expensive here, and it always seems to be.
This is something that government is not willing to put down, even very short time ago when there was announcement of mass bankruptcy of cargo companies, Minister of Finance did make very clear that there will not be any kind of tax reductions even for business purpose fuel.

This hold mechanism is very beautiful money pump from municipals to government, usually it goes another way around 8)
We do have income tax reduction on part of travel expensive.
It work like this:
Income 20k€ and travel expensive 5k€ per year.
Then instead of getting income tax percentage for 20k€/y, fellow get income tax percentage after 15k€/y limit, so this reduction decreases income tax few percentage.
In practice that mean that you pay less to community, and that money fellow save this way actually goes to government, because fellow can earn tax freely (from municipal tax) than money where he/she pays 72% government tax.
So of course government does not decrease fuel taxes.

Right now government of Finland is solid as rock on economical horizon.
Last bond that was admit did get twenty point over German government loan, but still it was tear from hands. Pricing was done on same day and it seems to be first time on history when this occurs.


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Well quite much like that.
Interest of that loan is "high" because Finland rating on Standard & Poor's is AAA, in another words highest possible, and it means that interest could really be little bit lover.
But if loan was sold out in one day, why change it 8)

I think, that it is too early say has Finland found a right path.
We have be free economy only less than ten years, before we join EMU (European Monetary Union) our economy was closed incest system, where banks were market.
Of course that economy did bankruptcy like all closed market does less than hundred years.
That bankruptcy (1990 -1993 A.D.) caused to economy itself was more devastating than WWII (1939-1945 A.D.).
Here is some graph 8)

http://tilastokeskus.fi/org/historia/bktn_muutokset.html

But I do see great hope for our nation, from bankrupt we have been raise for most brightest star on European flag just in few years.

Some cello work 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw0TikGmVz4


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