It
is the month of August; a resort town sits next to
the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the
little town looks totally deserted. It is tough
times, everybody is in debt, and everybody
lives on credit.
Suddenly,
a rich tourist comes to town.
He
enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the
reception counter, and goes to inspect the
rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The
hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs
to pay his debt to the butcher. The Butcher
takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt
to the pig raiser.
The pig
raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay
his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The
supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill
and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute
that in these hard times, gave her "services"
on credit.
The
hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with
the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to
pay for the rooms that she rented when she
brought her clients there.
The
hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back
on the counter so that the rich tourist will
not suspect anything.
At
that moment, the rich tourist comes down after
inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar
bill, after saying that he did not like any of the
rooms, and leaves town.
No one
earned anything. However, the whole town is now
without debt, and looks to the future with a
lot of optimism .
And
that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States
Government is doing business today.
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