| Poor Marie Antoinette - major case of her words being taken out of context.
Besides, if the french farmers had been willing to switch from wheat [for flour to make bread and cake] to potatoes [like everyone everywhere else was doing - and which there had been a royal command to do ] which were hardier and better suited to changes in climate, they wouldn't have been starving... >.>
But, in this case, the problem is that when 99% of your population is either poor or knows they are just currently lucky enough not to be? - this is not the way to get votes [except a stupidly high number of people I know who are poor, teetering on losing their homes to the bank bad talk the 99% O.o] |