#1 : ...because we have Zatlers!
#2 : ...because the main weapon to fight the inflation is price rising.
#3 : ...because we have legal bonus salaries in envelopes.
#4 : ...because the unemployed are leading the happiest lives.
#5 : ...because the most developed structure in the country is the State Revenue Service.
#6 : ...because we think about homeless people. For them we made the worlds most expensive bridge which will have room for 1150 cardboard boxes.
Comparing:
Bridge in China, 36 km, 50 meters above river - 700 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runyang_Bridge
Bridge in France, one of the highest bridges in world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct
A little thanks Petrovich for information.
#7 : ...because we have the most human court system in the world.
#10 : ...because good doctors are either arested or elected as presidents
#11 : ...because according to the news in internet portals nothing happens on Saturdays and Sundays in Latvia.
#12 : ...because prison is a place where inoccent people are protected from criminals.
#13 : ...because we produce sugar, then we destroy it all and purchase from aboard.
#18 : ...because our ministers have more holidays than a student or kindergarten schoolboy.
#22 : ...because thanks to our new police cars, which helps policemen to leave the site of crime even faster.
#23 : ...because latvian policemen have very strong nerves. who else could walk a narrow, dark alley pretending that they don' t see the man who is being brutaly beaten?
#24 : ...because the constitution is the law of all laws which is changed only two times a year and only if there is a dire need, like banning homosexual marriage, for example.
#25 : ...because ,when government could not find enough money in funds to rise teacher wages, they delayed their annual wage rise. ... For 30 days.
#27 : ...because we are a hardy nation - the state can destroy us one after another, but we still can say that we love this country.
#28 : ...because prices of our apartments in the center of Riga are the same as apartments in Paris or New York
#29 : ...because no matter how much you have paid in taxes, you still haven't paid enough.
#30 : ...because the posters of news portals know everything!
#31 : ...because , while America has Superman, Batman and Tooth Fairy, we have Cuukmens, prime minister Kalvitis and Kirils.
Kirils - The god himself.
#32 : ...because we love our country so much, that we try not to stomp on it too hard and go abroad.
#33 : ...because we have a price list for peeing on The Monument of Liberty, burning the flag or throwing it in Daugava from akmens bridge.
Daugava - River in Riga.
#34 : ...because we have so much money, that we can spend 15 442 440 Ls for an unbuilt national library "Light Castle", without considering the rising inflation.
29 985 320 USD
21 972 612 EUR
#35 : ...because we have twice elected a premier minister that no one wants.
#36 : ...because taking shit next to a monument is included in tour guides.
#37 : ...because we have the most original TV show ideas that the world has ever seen.
#38 : ...because we have our own MySpace.com, named 500 - Internal Server Error.
#39 : ...because we are about to build the 8th World Wonder.
#40 : ...because our forum posters are very smart and with a excellent sense of humor.
#41 : ...because we have a legal mafia, called "parliament".
#42 : ...because even in our black market there is nothing ilegal.
#43 : ...because we have a deputy of human rights commission who endorses beating of children and discriminating of women.
#44 : ...because we can purchase confidential lawyer dialogues published in books.
#82 : ...because we have unmarked police cars, which type, model, color and number signs are publicized on internet.
#99 : ...because Zatler did not want Light Castle. Demakova told him, that he has medieval time thinking. Now Zatler wants Light Castle.
Demakova - minister of culture.
Light Castle (Gaismas Pils) - A huge and expensive project. No one needs it, exept Demakova. And now Zatlers.
#192 : ...because You either earn good money, or work legally.
#246 : ...because we are the only country in the Europe where the yellow traffic light means "drive immediately!" and blinking green means "pedal to the floor!"
#344 : ...because one of the traditions of Jāņi is performing an alcohol test during wich the latvian spirits tell if the evening was boring or not.
#399 : ...because in public minibuses you can transport unlimited number of passangers.
#482 : ...because our population register is available in site www.draugiem.lv.
