Must be REALLY important....

[FishermanTim]

.....if Senate President Theresa Murray is heading to Finland on another "trade mission".
Can someone list for me exactly what we would import from Finland?
And can someone explain why we are wasting more taxpayer money on what is nothing more than a gussied-up vacation?
Maybe the next "trade mission" will be to Pago-Pago during their annual "Fertility Festival" or another trip to Germany (during Oktoberfest) for some other lame "trade mission"-like excuse.
Half the problem is that they are sending people on these "trade mission" vacations who are as well suited for trade talks as Foster Brooks would be as an AA sponser, or Lindsey Lohan as a spokeperson for a "purity ball" or Charlie Sheen speaking for the Church of Latter Day SAints.

It just sounds like one more excuse to waste OUR money on another one of our state's leaders failed attempts at doing their jobs.

[striperman36]

IKEA? Birch bark?

I think its a joke myself.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Can someone list for me exactly what we would import from Finland?

Hopefully Women!!!!!

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Can someone list for me exactly what we would import from Finland?

From Wikipedia...


Finland has a highly industrialised, mixed economy with a per capita output equal to that of other western economies such as France, Germany, Sweden or the United Kingdom. The largest sector of the economy is services at 65.7 percent, followed by manufacturing and refining at 31.4 percent. Primary production is 2.9 percent.[6] With respect to foreign trade, the key economic sector is manufacturing.

The largest industries[7] are electronics (21.6 percent), machinery, vehicles and other engineered metal products (21.1 percent), forest industry (13.1 percent), and chemicals (10.9 percent). Finland has timber and several mineral and freshwater resources. Forestry, paper factories, and the agricultural sector (on which taxpayers spend around 2 billion euro annually) are politically sensitive to rural residents.

The Greater Helsinki area generates around a third of GDP.[citation needed] In a 2004 OECD comparison, high-technology manufacturing in Finland ranked second largest after Ireland. Knowledge-intensive services have also ranked the smallest and slow-growth sectors – especially agriculture and low-technology manufacturing – second largest after Ireland. Investment was below expected. Overall short-term outlook was good and GDP growth has been above many EU peers. Finland has the 4th largest knowledge economy in Europe, behind Sweden, Denmark and the UK.