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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
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.
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
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
'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?
€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
Did they go looking doe the most smug, I'm-an-asshole expression possible for that guy, or does he just look like that?
Resting Bougface
Idiot. That's neither healthy nor sustainable. What's his vision for his country?
Bleeding it dry? There was a thread in Mastodon recently proving there's a massive supermarket cartel driving prices in Austria higher than in surrounding countries and the government took the side of the supermarkets.
The vision of his party is to keep everything the same, they're conservatives
What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my "poor" rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village's life force happened.
"Communism is when no food"
Capitalism:
Who tf can afford to eat at McDonalds, have you seen their prices lately?
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.
His face is so incredibly punchable
He's the kind of guy who looks like he could use a quick session of his teeth being on fire.
mcdonalds is not cheap though
Fast food is now treated as a "expensive night out" for us. It's like $30 for standard cost.
Crazy how fucked the economy has gotten pretty much everywhere lol
: "But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!"
Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash
Is McDonald's cheap anywhere other than the US? In the US, there's a bunch of promotions that drive costs way down...
Yeah, I always heard in my youth that McDonald's is the poor's restaurant (in the US at least). However it was never really the case e.g. in Hungary. It was always average priced at best. You can eat far better for far less in every moderate-sized town.
Nothing new for Austria. Lived there for 30+ years, it's downhill and corruption all the way.
I mean it's one Big Mac, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars? 
Not cheap at all. And really bad for health, so doubly costly.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
I propose that we should eat this austrian chancellor instead. 
this line of thinking has never backfired on aristocrats before, and certainly not Austrian aristocrats specifically
Death to America
lol, su true! It's literally the first thing that comes to mind!
Mr. Karl Marie Antoinehammer skipped some history class
McDonalds is disgusting
McDonald's is also more expensive than the grocery store which is the logical fallacy in his callous statement.
I never hear anything about Austria. And when I do it is this asshole?
I am gonna take a guess at the dude has never seen what fast food did to Americans. Because he's as stupid as his statement.