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Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s (www.politico.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

'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?