How the Wuxi Water Crisis is affecting the King of Wuxi's bread intake.

The real important question of the great Wuxi Water crisis of 2007 is not how many millions of people will die from drinking the toxic and malodorous water, and whether it would result in a revolution that could see the toppling of yet another Chinese dynasty.  The most pressing question that geo-strategists are concerned with is how the water crisis is affecting the King of Wuxi's bread intake.

The King of Wuxi is the guru of bread.  His statement "I like Bread" compares favorably with the "Let them eat Bread" attributed to some less enlightened royal personage way back when.  So the question of bread is very important.

Interviewed from his palace in Wuxi's New District, the King says he has stopped eating bread altogether because the price he is paying for water is draining his royal vaults of liquidity.   However that is not stopping him from eating packages of flour, yeast, eggs and margarine.   Said the King: Not actually baking bread is a way of giving me more time to practice the lazy and indolent lifestyle of royalty.  As well, the flour sticking to my skin gives me the pasty made-up look of late 17th century French Royalty or whoever it was that liked to wear lots of makeup.  It was the French wasn't it?....