Statsbudsjettet
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What it's about: On budget night in the Ministry of Finance, junior adviser Ingvild is told to find one item in the state budget that has not already been leaked to the press, so the minister has some news to announce. The only one she finds is thirty million for the crumbling breakwater in her own home village, and by the morning press conference her grandmother has already leaked it without knowing anything at all. Satire.
Klokka var litt over ti på kvelden, og i Finansdepartementet i Oslo brant det lys i nesten hvert eneste vindu. Ingvild Hauge, tjuesju år gammel og junior rådgiver siden januar, satt foran to skjermer og en kald pizza. Neste morgen skulle statsbudsjettet legges fram. Det hadde hun drømt om siden hun begynte å studere samfunnsøkonomi i Bergen. Hun hadde sett for seg store debatter om skatt og velferd, om milliarder som ble flyttet fra ett formål til et annet. Hun hadde ikke sett for seg at oppgaven hennes den siste natta skulle være å lete etter en nyhet.
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