It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich tourist from the East is driving through
town.
He enters the only hotel in the sleepy town and lays a hundred dollar
bill on the desk
stating he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to
spend the night.
As soon as the man walks up the stairs, the hotel proprietor takes the
hundred dollar
bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to pay his debt to
the pig farmer.
The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to 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 lately had to
offer her
"services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel and pays off her debt with the $100 to the
hotel proprietor,
paying for the rooms that she had rented when she brought clients to
that establishment.
The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the
Rich traveler will not
suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs,
after inspecting the
rooms.
He picks up the $100 bill and states that the rooms are not
satisfactory...... Pockets the
money and walks out the door and leaves town.
No one earned anything. However the whole town is now out of debt, and
looks to the
future with a lot of optimism.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is
conducting business
today.
If that doesn't scare the heck out of you, then I don't know what will.