Stimulus 101

[kuda]

It's a slow day in a small town and
streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody
is living on credit.
A rich tourist drives through town, stops at the
motel, and lays a $100
bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms
upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the owner
grabs the bill and runs
next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the
street to retire
his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off
to pay his bill to
his supplier, the Farmer's Co-op.

The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the
$100 and runs to pay his
debt to the local prostitute, who has also been
facing hard times and has
had to offer her "services" on credit...

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off
her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100
back on the counter so
the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the
stairs, states that
the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100
bill and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned
anything. However, the
whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the
future with a lot more optimism..

And this, ladies
and gentlemen, is how the United States
Government is
conducting business today.