Comment Re:Different pockets, same taxpayers' money (Score 5, Informative) 1026
Seems to me you left out the important part of the Wikipedia explanation. "Let them eat cake" is usually attributed to Marie Antoinette (Queen of France at the time) and, according to Wikipedia:
"The context of the quote, as attributed to Antoinette, was its utterance during a famine caused by a bread shortage. Upon being alerted that her people were starving due to having little bread to eat, she is said to have replied, "Then let them eat cake." The response among the peasantry may have helped ignite the French Revolution."
"The context of the quote, as attributed to Antoinette, was its utterance during a famine caused by a bread shortage. Upon being alerted that her people were starving due to having little bread to eat, she is said to have replied, "Then let them eat cake." The response among the peasantry may have helped ignite the French Revolution."