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jimnyc
02-03-2018, 05:20 PM
Nancy apparently has been doubling down on her "bread crumbs" comments regarding the millions and millions getting $1k bonuses. This woman is just determined to continually lie to the American people, about pretty much anything.

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Sarah Sanders Takes A Chainsaw To Pelosi’s ‘Crumbs’ Comment After Tax Cut Bonuses

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders celebrated on Saturday the 100,000 Best Buy employees getting bonuses as a result of President Trump’s tax cuts — and took a chainsaw to Nancy Pelosi’s rhetoric in the process.

https://i.imgur.com/NTG8ElG.png

The link Sanders attached to the tweet is an article from the Star Tribune newspaper in Minnesota.

It explains how Best Buy is giving full-time employees a $1,000 bonus. Part-time employees will get a $500 bonus.

The article states, “In all, more than 100,000 of Best Buy’s 125,000 employees in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are expected to receive the extra cash.”

However, Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has dismissed post-tax cut bonuses — some of which were up to $2000-$3000 — as “crumbs.”

“A number of bonuses–one of the bonuses was in a union contract and then they added a little more money to that. That same firm just told the employees they were going to be laying off 1,500 people and if they wanted to save their jobs, they could work 32 hours,” she said.

“In terms of the bonus that corporate America receives versus the crumbs they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on is so pathetic.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/03/sarah-sanders-pelosi-crumbs-trump-tax-cut/

Gunny
02-03-2018, 05:57 PM
Know what this reminds me of? The infamous:


"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language) phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche) was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quote would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.
While the phrase is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette),[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake#cite_note-1) there is no record of her having said it. It appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau)'s Confessions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)), his autobiography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography) (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire to have some bread to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he recalled the words of a "great princess":

At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: "Then let them eat brioches."[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake#cite_note-RousseauConfessions262-2)
Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and he may have invented the anecdote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdote), as Confessions cannot be read as strictly factual.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake#cite_note-3)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

Except I wouldn't describe the Ugly Duckling as a "Princess".