Aboul Gheit responded to journalist Ahmed Moussa’s question regarding Egyptian complaints about high prices, comparing the situation in Egypt to that in the United States of America.
He said during television statements to the “On My Responsibility” program, on the “Sada El Balad” screen on Monday evening: “Prices in Britain and the United States are high, and inflation is scary!” When I go to New York, I buy a sandwich for 16 dollars, or 800 pounds. Here in Egypt, I buy a wonderful fava beans sandwich in Heliopolis for only 15 pounds.”
In response to journalist Ahmed Moussa’s comment that the price of a fava bean sandwich reached 15 pounds, which is considered high for some, Aboul Gheit responded: “Why are you today an agricultural worker who earns 150 pounds a day and works 5 hours!”
When Musa pointed out that this amount was barely enough to buy a carton of eggs while he was returning to his family, Aboul Gheit replied: “What is a carton of eggs? See how much it will cover. And don’t forget a loaf of bread for 20 piasters, and the state pays for it.”
Musa corrected him, pointing out that the price of a loaf of bread in the free market was two pounds, so he replied: “So what should we do? Count your sheep, Juha! Our resources are sufficient, and the Egyptian people are increasing in unprecedented virility, reaching 110 million.”
He continued: “One time, my car, I stopped for two minutes while passing under the screen of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics on Orouba Street. I found the number did not stop. Ten to ten, every 16 seconds a new baby is born!” Do we want to impose on society what China imposed by restricting birth to one child in the days of Mao Zedong? How can it not be reasonable?
Source: Sada El Balad
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