Honestly, this just feels like yet another round of “blame Marin first, check the facts later.” The audit office tossing every automatic index adjustment into the “Marin spending” bucket (and then calling it excessive) seems pretty disingenuous. If even the finance ministry’s own budget director is saying the numbers are inflated, that should tell us something.
And it’s wild how the same methodology magically makes Orpo’s cuts look like increases. Almost like the framing matters more than the reality.
People forget the context too: we were in the middle of a once-in-a-century crisis. Most countries spent heavily to keep people afloat and prevent long-term damage. Finland actually came out of the pandemic in better shape than many, because we didn’t force people to sink or swim.
Criticizing Marin for state debt while ignoring the economic shock she was dealing with just feels like selective outrage. Maybe instead of fixating on who spent what, we should be asking why audits are being presented in a way that seems more political than analytical.
Holy fuck, i have never seen people so possessed with a former PM than finns… Take some damn responsibility and not just blaming all the time. 🤦‍♂️
I found the previous article about this report and, if the article was correct, the report itself a bit strange in its conclusions. And how it was assigning the costs. Now it’s even the current government to also say the report was not reflecting reality. That should indicate something…
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Honestly, this just feels like yet another round of “blame Marin first, check the facts later.” The audit office tossing every automatic index adjustment into the “Marin spending” bucket (and then calling it excessive) seems pretty disingenuous. If even the finance ministry’s own budget director is saying the numbers are inflated, that should tell us something.
And it’s wild how the same methodology magically makes Orpo’s cuts look like increases. Almost like the framing matters more than the reality.
People forget the context too: we were in the middle of a once-in-a-century crisis. Most countries spent heavily to keep people afloat and prevent long-term damage. Finland actually came out of the pandemic in better shape than many, because we didn’t force people to sink or swim.
Criticizing Marin for state debt while ignoring the economic shock she was dealing with just feels like selective outrage. Maybe instead of fixating on who spent what, we should be asking why audits are being presented in a way that seems more political than analytical.
Holy fuck, i have never seen people so possessed with a former PM than finns… Take some damn responsibility and not just blaming all the time. 🤦‍♂️
I found the previous article about this report and, if the article was correct, the report itself a bit strange in its conclusions. And how it was assigning the costs. Now it’s even the current government to also say the report was not reflecting reality. That should indicate something…
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