President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson interviewed by P

[MatterEngineer]

These taxes were only so low because Iceland has been collecting a plethora of loans from the rest of the world; now-a-days, however, taxes have risen considerably in a number of fields--following the bank-crash.

Bus fare, thou crippling fares are bleeding me dry!

[capricious71]

They could have sat down.

[rcdinh91]

omg his accent rocks

[matowgc]

Go for it Olafur! Tell the Americans what they don't like to hear- that despite their wealth their society is more dangerous, less healthy and more polluting than any Western European country! Start learning from us USA.

[hd26R601]

Funny that an American journalist would bring up American values of marriage and family, while having one of the highest rates of unwanted teen pregnancies in the developed world. Don't get that.

[mrpickles478]

*shrug* I'm a conversvative and i don't understand why meeting someone who is a socialistic constitutes aggression.

[321lawc]

@mrpickles478 Because they are communists.

[dan020350]

25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hd26R601]

@dan020350 Hey, we've only recently gone over 300,000 population, with such a tiny, tiny society it naturally takes a higher percentage of the population simply to man all of the infrastructure of a modern country and on top of that, we have a socialistic society in terms of universal healthcare, education to a large degree etc

[dan020350]

@hd26R601 :))

[CodGamerify]

@hd26R601 alltaf sama fucking afsökunin fock tregu börn

[kaa3164]

@CodGamerify

Þetta er líka gild afsökun, og augljóslega ert þú undir 15 ára aldri.