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It is the month of June, a resort town sits
next to the shores of a lake. 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 dollar
bill on the reception counter, and goes to
inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick
one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar
bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill,
and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill,
and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of
his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the
100 dollar bill 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 dollar bill 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 dollar
bill 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 dollar bill, 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.