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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (184363)	3/9/2004 12:25:40 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572973

Ted, Do you eat the same cake as Marie Antoinette? First of all, you screwed up that line, since Marie Antoinette wasn't the one "eating the cake." (Makes me wonder whether you know what "cake" actually means in that context.) No, I didn't. She was suggesting that they eat some of the cake that she liked if there was not enough bread to go around. And actually, she didn't say cake........it was alleged that she said brioche which is a kind of rich bun/bread made from egg yolks. However, in reality, its believed that the insensitive remark was actually made by a duchess one hundred years before Marie Antoinette was born. And that the democrats of Antoinette's time attributed the remark to her to enflame the populace.......kind of like today's WMDs brouhaha. But that's probably more French and American history than you bargained for. <g> Second, having worked in the food service industry as a teenager, I know how hard those jobs can be, so don't pretend that I'm being some sort of arrogant aristocrat with my views. Then what is the reasoning behind your remarks? And third, do you think raising the minimum wage will solve the poverty problem? Yes, it would help.......a great deal. Try to feed a family of four on minimum wage. Why are you so reluctant to share the cake? If so, why don't we raise the minimum wage to at least $20/hour, leading to an annual salary of $40K a year? That would cause huge inflation but maybe over a decent period of time so long as other salaries were not raised at the same rate. That ought to be a comfortable wage for anyone, including those who work hard at jobs that are underappreciated, according to your accusation. Yes, it would be. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (184363)	3/9/2004 9:03:44 AM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1572973

Tench Re...Ted, Do you eat the same cake as Marie Antoinette? First of all, you screwed up that line, since Marie Antoinette wasn't the one "eating the cake." (Makes me wonder whether you know what "cake" actually means in that context.) Not only wasn't she the one eating cake, her response wasn't arrogant at all. Simply put, Paris had a law, at the time, whereby the bread shops, which also sold pastries, cakes etc, for far higher prices and profits, had to sell their pastries, for the same price as bread, if they ran out of bread, to sell to the poor. It was a law, put in by the rich, to protect the poor, so that the bread shops, didn't just make the expensive, high profit items. So, when Marie pointed out that they could eat cake, she hardly meant it in a differential way. She meant it in much the same way, the airlines force you to sit in first class, if coach is oversold.