It's a slow day in a little East Texas town The sun is beating down, and the
streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody
lives on credit.....
On this particular day a rich tourist from back
east is
driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill
on the
desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to
pick one to
spend the night.
As soon as the man 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 at the supplier of feed and fuel.
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, picks
up the $100 bill, states that the
rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the
money, 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 that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United
States
Government is conducting business today.
