Qu'ils mangent du gâteau… ‘Let them eat cake ‘
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. ... While the phrase is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of her having said it. (Wikipedia)
President Trump suggested Thursday that grocery stores and banks will give a break to the 800,000 federal workers who are without pay due to the partial government shutdown.
Trump was responding to a question about comments Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made hours earlier. Ross had prompted a wave of criticism after he claimed not to understand why furloughed workers were visiting food banks and suggested they take out a loan to cover their lost wages.
Trump said he hadn’t heard Ross’s statement but acknowledged that “perhaps he should have said it differently.”
He claimed that grocery stores would “work along” with furloughed employees because “they know the people” and have been “dealing with them for years.”
“Local people know who they are when they go for groceries and everything else,” Trump said of furloughed workers. “And I think what Wilbur was probably trying to say is that they will work along.” (Washington Post(
Prompted a bit more by a reporter over the shutdown leading to workers staying home, Kudlow (Trumps National Economic Council Director), seemed to suddenly lose his coo
“You know? I’m not even gonna go there,” he said. “You know what I’m saying, it’s very clear. And you know what else? With respect to people who do have financial hardships, as someone was asking, they are coming to work and giving the same 24/7 work they always do, and I’m saying, whatever semantic game you think you’re playing with me– and I’m usually easy going guy– give them credit, okay?”
Kudlow praised federal employees for showing up for work in spite of shutdowns, saying they are “volunteering” to do it in honor of the country and “presumably their allegiance to President Trump.” Democrats have had shutdowns too, in the past, he added. (C-SPAN)
Yeppers, MAGA, (and those of you who were certain Trump was gonna’ drain that gosh darn swamp) He sure done did that…didn’t he! This nation is one step closer to a Class War, not the kind of just the Have’s and Have Not’s, but the kind where chaos breeds violence, violence is the kind of DISASTER Trump spoke about during a FOX interview as being the root goal for Making America Great Again. And now Little Lindsey Graham wants to begin AGAIN, dealing with Hilary’s emails… Let them eat dirt!
