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Day 22 cont 📻💰💰💰🏡⚠️

This radio interview was in 2002, 23 years ago!

“As the interviewer, you see the switchboard at your radio station lighting up. Lots of your listeners want to talk to the prime minister. You take some callers, and one of them is named Phyllis.”

“Phyllis: I won't be as aggressive as to shake my fist at you, but I'll certainly shake my finger at you when you say that someone who owns their home has no problem, they're sitting on a nice little nest egg.

We're on a #pension and we would like to #sell our home, go into a #unit or a #townhouse or something.

But we can't do that because if we do, we're going to spend the whole amount just on a townhouse or a unit and we'll have nothing left over if we need to do anything to it. So we're stuck.

PM: Look Phyllis, what I said was that not everybody was sitting on a #NestEgg. I said people had not complained about the #value of their house going up.

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Les retraités dans le viseur : #moscovici recommande la fin de l'indexation des pensions de retraite sur la hausse des prix, dans un rapport remis à #Bayrou capital.fr/votre-retraite/retr et le #Medef plaide pour une suppression de l’abattement fiscal de 10 % sur leurs pensions. capital.fr/votre-argent/retrai

#retraites#pension#politique
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