It’s a slow day in a little town in east Texas. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody’s in debt, and living on credit.
On this particular day a rich tourist from up north is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying 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 feed store.
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 bill back on the counter so the rich traveler won’t suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms aren’t 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 looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Funny. I got a grin. Sad but true.
Actually, the motel owner is now OUT $100, because he just lost the $100 the hooker gave him. Everyone else is paid off, but he got SHAFTED!
Great story!
No money left over for taxes, however.
Guido: Are you an Asassin?
Marty: I'm a soldier.
Guido: You're neither. You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.Photojournalist: Not with a bang but a whimper..... and with that, I'm effin outa here Jack.