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June 25, 2009
How it works
Tucson John sends this little tale.
It's August in a resort town that sits on the shores of a lake. It's been raining for days and the little town looks totally deserted. It's tough times, everybody's in debt and everybody's living on credit.
Then a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a $100 bill on the reception desk and goes up to inspect the rooms and pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 bill and pays his debt to the pig farmer.
The swineherd takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the feed store.
The feed store owner takes the $100 bill and pays off his debt to the town's prostitute. In these hard times, she'd given him "services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel with the $100 and pays off her tab there for the rooms that she's rented when she brought clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will be none the wiser.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, picks up his $100, says that he didn't really like any of the rooms and he leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt and it looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.
Posted by joke du jour at June 25, 2009 07:33 PM
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