L'expression : « Marie-Antoinette moment »

Je vous disais hier soir ...  

Mme de Sabran a écrit:

Marie-Jeanne a écrit:J'hésitais à acquérir de livre de Catriona Seth mais après avoir entendu son intervention au colloque de la Sorbonne aujourd'hui, je vais l'acquérir de ce pas. Le dynamisme et le franc parler de cette auteure m'a véritablement séduite.

Catriona Seth a été vraiment formidable !     Nous étions tous suspendus à ses lèvres .  Elle nous a fait un scoop de derrière les fagots qui nous a laissés absolument pantois...  
Nous le partagerons demain matin, c'est promis .  

Eh bien voici !  
 Catriona Seth nous a dit que tout le monde bien sûr connaît le fameux Let them eat cake en référence au supposé cynisme de Marie-Antoinette indifférente à la misère du peuple,  mais ce que nous ignorions peut-être c'est une nouvelle expression de la même veine, inspirée également par Marie-Antoinette, et qui fait maintenant flores aux Etats Unis :

Que signifie ?!      Je vous le donne en mille :    le désordre, le souk, le ratage, la faillite,  la fin des haricots, la mort du petit cheval, enfin n'importe quoi de catastrophique pour un objet, un projet, un événement ou une personne  is   ...  his ou its  « Marie-Antoinette moment »  !  

Voici, pour illustrer le propos de Catriona Seth, un bon exemple trouvé sur le net,   et pas des moindres :  l'Obama care .
Il nous est fourni par Simon Constable dans une publication Forbes .



ObamaCare could be facing a Marie Antoinette moment.

In case you didn't know, she was the Queen of France who reputedly said of the starving peasants, "let them eat cake." That was of course, just like telling someone who is hungry and broke, why don't you just eat at the Harvard Club like the rest of us?

Marie Antoinette was later beheaded during the terror of the 1790s.

Her comment, which she may or may not have made, seems reminiscent of news earlier this month about the so-called Affordable Care Act. In November, one healthcare insurer warned that it may pull out of the ACA exchanges after 2016, citing low enrollment and poor economics.

There appears to be nothing stopping such a move, which may or may not be ok depending on how you look at the problem.

But there has also been no relief offered to consumers who by law must purchase health insurance or face increasingly hefty fines.

In the simplest terms, any health insurer may opt out of ObamaCare because profits are too low, but there is nothing being offered to consumers in compensation for less choice on the exchanges.

The rich and powerful corporations get relief while the little guy doesn't get any, at least not so far.


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What is worse is that fewer firms competing will mean higher premiums and likely lower quality. Only in the addled minds of politicians would less competition result in lower prices and better quality. At the extreme Obamacare could become like a poll tax -- something you just have to pay for being alive in exchange for marginal service.

I'm not against corporations making a profit. Indeed they should because ultimately that's what creates jobs. What I am against is having laws created in favor of certain types of companies who actually have no obligation to provide the services that the populous must purchase.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2015/11/30/obamacares-marie-antoinette-moment/#25fcb9e41877

...    ou bien encore :

Hillary’s Marie Antoinette Moment on NAFTA could put Trump over the top. ( September 2016 )

Eh bien, ça n'a pas manqué !  

Qui dit mieux ?!    

Sylvain Cypel :

From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie Antoinette Moment
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/11/from-sans-culottes-to-gilets-jaunes-macrons-marie-antoinette-moment/

Je retiens cette nouvelle expression, que je ne connaissais pas...