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“So what does it mean that a child doesn’t get a hot meal in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest hot meal in Austria is? It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can’t afford this meal for their child,” he said.

“If I have too little money, I go to work more,” he added in the video, which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg — with no burgers in sight — his conservative People’s Party confirmed to Plus24.

i hope he chokes to death on a piece of rotten cheese in his wine cave

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Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child’s nutrition that’s a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.

This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.

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lol, in my experience French conservative politicians are equally out of touch. They’re bourgeois fucks, they have no idea what a bus ticket costs. See this compilation from a few years ago

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/pain-au-chocolat-a-10-centimes-ticket-de-metro-a-4-euros-quand-les-politiques-vivent-dans-un-autre-monde_1887529.html

They live on another plane of existence, they can’t do anything themselves so it’s not surprising they don’t know the price of things

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‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?’

Or even better:

C.J.: It’s not that I wanna don a shroud, I just think the Polly-Anna act’s not wearing well. Sir, I’m worried that at some point avoidance starts to look like maybe we just haven’t noticed. We run the risk of appearing out of touch, like one of those President’s who doesn’t know the price of milk. Sir, do you know the price of milk?
BARTLET: Not precisely.
C.J.: Neither do I. Do any of us?

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€3.50 every day would be €108.50 per month for a single person eating a single meal per day

that’s way more than i spend at the supermarket and i eat two meals per day that are way more filling and actually healthy lmao

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I can almost assure you it was one of those gatherings of pretentious snobs that extend their pinky when sipping from their Château Latour.

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Who tf can afford to eat at McDonalds, have you seen their prices lately?

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His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can’t even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.

He’s not just a capitalist pig, he’s an out of touch capitalist pig.

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43 points

This is another way to tell people to go kill themselves.

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9 points

Basically yes.

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mcdonalds is not cheap though

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Fast food is now treated as a “expensive night out” for us. It’s like $30 for standard cost.

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22 points

Crazy how fucked the economy has gotten pretty much everywhere lol

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21 points

: “But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!”

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It’s inflation. This is simply what happens when the governments print money.

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And after the delivery services started taking over, it’s not even fast. At my local place anything other than nuggets and fries takes 20-30min minimum.

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Are you enjoying your capitalism?

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