How the stimulus package works...enjoy before its banished to PARF

[Dueller]

It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea . 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 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note 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 Euro note 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 Euro note 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 Euro note, 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

[Scuba Steve]

Great for those of us without any debt I guess...

[Gogar]

[porsche4life]

Holy Crap Jeremy! They are making Porsche smart cars now!

[TheMentat]

Originally Posted by Dueller

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

That`s retarded...

Everybody earned something, and they all had receivables to offset their payables. The tourist simply provided the liquidity needed to clear all of the transactions.

Nothing wrong with that!

[NineOhOne]

Has anyone heard the story about the Bugatti that hit a Pelican?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

You sir, are a dick.

Originally Posted by Gogar

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by NineOhOne

Has anyone heard the story about the Bugatti that hit a Pelican?

No, but I have heard about a the cool collar!

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

You sir, are a dick.

I'm sorry.

[rick-l]

That's stupid.

The hotel proprietor is out 100 Euros.

[Noah930]

I think we need to see a pic of the town's prostitute before we can pass judgment on the worthiness of the financial repayment plan.

[Schumi]

And if someone along the line decides to keep that 100$ and spend it instead of paying off their debt, the whole plan goes to hell.

[fingpilot]

And every one of those people will gladly go back into debt again knowing how well it worked last time.