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To: Just mythoughts

Yeah. "Let them eat CAKE."


4 posted on 08/05/2004 3:58:25 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
"Yeah. "Let them eat CAKE.""


JFKerry's campaign theme!!!!!
13 posted on 08/05/2004 4:12:57 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
"Let them eat CAKE."
I understand and sympathize with what you mean here. I hate tuh-ray-za as much as the next person does.

But the story of this quote is actually so interesting that I must point out that it is consistently misused.

In fact, the bread-makers in Paris at the time had a union-like strangle-hold on the price of bread and were driving it up beyond the means of the average person. Cake-baking wasn't similarly regulated/monopolized and the price of cake was thus far less. The words "let them eat cake" didn't mean "why don't the peasants just live like the rich people", it meant: "break the bread-monopoly with an end-run around the union-bakers".

Interesting, hey?

Now back to tuh-ray-za bashing, which I heartily enjoy.

I think she's a deal-breaker for many Americans.

Too weird. Too strange. Too much of a blatant liar.

15 posted on 08/05/2004 4:35:24 AM PDT by samtheman (www.georgewbush.com)
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