Quote Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
We have canceled our claims to the following debtors (in NoK):

Burma – 1.5 billion
Sierra Leone – 60 million
Sudan – 772 million
Ah, so that's how those piss-poor countries manage to pay for our arms supplies: at the end of the chain, there's a Norwegian taxpayer.

This is so much better, so much more elegant, than a Norwegian membership of the EU and having your taxmoney flow into our coffers through elaborate yet cumbersome devices like the CAP.