$100 Stimulus Story...

[M.D. Holloway]

Here is an amusing story - not accurate but amusing. See if you can spot the flaw in the logic train...

In a small town in the United States , the place looks almost 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 town's only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter as a deposit, 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 farmer.

The pig farmer 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 tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes back his 100 dollar bill, 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 and the State of California are doing business today.

[Jim Richards]

There's been a number of these "stories" floating around PPOT.

[bell]

for a minute i thought it was another micheal jackson thread

[cgarr]

I would use a credit card.

[speedracing944]

don't forget the tax on each one of those transactions with the exception of the hooker.

Speedy

[speedracing944]

don't forget the tax on each one of those transactions with the exception of the hooker.

Speedy

[M.D. Holloway]

the mistake is that hookers don't pay fo da room...don't axe me how Iz know dat...