“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 horrible deal, you could get much more food by being cheap brands in the supermarket.

This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally 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

francetvinfo.fr/…/pain-au-chocolat-a-10-centimes-…

‘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?