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"Mr President, stability and growth programmes are what allow governments to trample on the weak and the poor, including pensioners and the elderly, telling them that they have no money to support them or pay their pensions because they have to respect the Stability and Growth Pact. That is not true, as we are all aware. It would be possible to respect the Stability and Growth Pact and pay and increase all the pensions, giving the poor people who have nothing the means to live, but reducing the State’s less useful outlays. I therefore call upon all the elderly citizens of Europe, instead of dividing their votes between all the right- or left-wing parties that exist in their States – thus breaking up 33% of the votes, for the elderly represent 33% of the electorate – to form a pensioners’ party, which would then receive 33% of the votes and send 208 representatives to this House, who would certainly be more effective than a single representative."@en1
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