Our Government at work

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Slow Day in Texas

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. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk
and says 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.

[longsidelandry]

lol wow

[craziekajn]

The best part is that most of the people that live in the US would say that everybody in that situation was $100 richer than they were before the rich man came to town and wouldn't see anything wrong with what just happened.