"Let them eat cake". It's one of the most famous quotes in history.

[friend of m and j]

At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France’s King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fueled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head several years later (historians and biographers say that story is not true).

Kind of reminds me of The Trump at the 2018 G7 meeting where Trump not only refused to sign the communique traditionally sent out after the G7 meeting he reached into his pocket and pulled out 2 pieces of Starburst candy and threw them on the table and said to Chancellor Merkel, 'Here, Angela. Don't say I never give you anything.'" Then he walked out of the room.

But he probably won't loose his head as happened to Marie-Antonette.

[Me.]

1. Except She Didn't Say That

“Now, I know what some of you are thinking, “Of course she didn’t, she spoke French!” But, in fact, she didn’t say “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” either. In fact, this saying in France actually pre-dated her arrival there by anywhere from about thirty years to as much as a century.

This myth is often stated that on her way to the guillotine, forced by a mob of starving French peasants, she exasperatedly said “let them eat cake!” Another version says that when she heard the people were starving from lack of bread, she suggested, “let them eat cake.” There are numerous problems with both of these versions of the tail, but we’ll just stick with the “let them eat cake” part.

The actual saying “let them eat cake” was first written by the political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his autobiography “Confessions”. At the time, Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old and living in Austria. She didn’t come to France until four years later when she married Louis XVI. More than that, Rousseau mentioned this same phrase in a letter written 18 years before Marie-Antoinette was even born.”

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/marie-antoinette-never-said-let-them-eat-cake/

https://www.history.com/news/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/let-them-eat-cake.html

[friend of m and j]

2. To Me.

Did you not see my comment in parenthesis; ((historians and biographers say that story is not true).

[Me.]

3. Sorry, Did Miss That

But could you not find a better analogy, at least one that was true. And for the record, the reason France went bankrupt was the result of 2 frozen winters and France spending so much on our Revolutionary War.