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Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s
No money for food? Go to McDonald’s, Karl Nehammer says.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has come under fire after video footage emerged in which he says low-income parents should feed their children burgers from McDonald's.
In the footage, Nehammer talks about poverty before complaining about how child hunger is dealt with in the press.
"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 —
- pfff peasants_niko
- convervatives always have the best visions how to solve poverty.... unhealthy but cheap... greedy basterdsneverscared
- easier solution: stop being poordoesnotexist
- yes eat some rats .. then u have more cash and you are not so poor anymore...neverscared