Doing Business Today

**slotz10** · 06-10-2009, 07:53 PM

A Stimulus Story
>
> 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.

**Copycatted** · 06-11-2009, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by slotz10

A Stimulus Story
>
> 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.

Then just WHO is it holding up progress

**HomeyG** · 06-11-2009, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by faff_up

Then just WHO is it holding up progress

That would be the government that collected taxes from the tourist, hotel owner, butcher, pig owner, supplier and hooker.

**JohnBoy44** · 06-11-2009, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by slotz10

A Stimulus Story
>
> 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.

economics isn't your strong suit.

**HomeyG** · 06-11-2009, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by JohnBoy44

economics isn't your strong suit.

JohnBoy

Why don't you tell us where he's gone wrong!

**JohnBoy44** · 06-11-2009, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by HomeyG

JohnBoy

Why don't you tell us where he's gone wrong!

why don't you think for yourself and stop buying into crap like "obama doesn't have a birth certificate" and all the other crap forwarded in right wing emails.
Being a gullible moron isn't very patriotic.

**james_t** · 06-11-2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by JohnBoy44

why don't you think for yourself and stop buying into crap like "obama doesn't have a birth certificate" and all the other crap forwarded in right wing emails.
Being a gullible moron isn't very patriotic.

Sounds like another way of saying, "because I can't."

**JohnBoy44** · 06-11-2009, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by james_t

Sounds like another way of saying, "because I can't."

ok, genius. tell me how they didn't earn it.
we pay our bills withthe money we earn, don't we?

and by the way who IS holding up the progress.....? why didn't they say.

**HomeyG** · 06-11-2009, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by JohnBoy44

why don't you think for yourself and stop buying into crap like "obama doesn't have a birth certificate" and all the other crap forwarded in right wing emails.
Being a gullible moron isn't very patriotic.

JohnBoy, JohnBoy, JohnBoy

Sure like to dish it out but you can't take it. I thought it was an honest question. How you can go from a question about economics to Obama's birth certificate is beyond me. So why don't you, in all your wisdom, inform this unpatriotic gullible moron.

**JohnBoy44** · 06-11-2009, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by HomeyG

JohnBoy, JohnBoy, JohnBoy

Sure like to dish it out but you can't take it. I thought it was an honest question. How you can go from a question about economics to Obama's birth certificate is beyond me. So why don't you, in all your wisdom, inform this unpatriotic gullible moron.

i didn't say you weren't patriotic.