“I have learned to live even on 1,500 euro!” Nea Dimokratia MP Maria Antoniou made a “historic” statement on a local television network apparently in an effort to demonstrate that even our elected members of the Parliament know very well what is “austerity.”
“I am not rich… I have learned to live even on 1,500 euro per month,” the lawmaker from Kastoria, Northern Greece, told local “Flash TV” and program “Rush Hour”.
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Antoniou’s economic sacrifice was not welcome with enthusiasm by the crisis- , austerity- and unemployment-hit public.
I suppose it was the thousands of low-pensioners of 600-euro income and the hundred-thousands of 300- and 500-euro workers commented in a language I do not dare copy paste here in this blog. I also assume, they were all trying to tell her that she could live even on much less…
For the record: Greek MPs earn 8,000 euro per month, have several extra bonuses to cover office and travel expenses and tax only a part of their income. That’s why they live on another planet and in rosy atmospheric levels.
