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 and everyone is in debt and everyone is living on credit……On this particular day a wealthy traveler from back east is driving through town.
He stops at the town motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk and says he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one out to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the $100 bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 bill and heads off to retire his debt to the local pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his bill to the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmer's Co-op take the $100 bill and runs to pay his bill to the local prostitute, who has been facing hard times and has had to offer “ services“ on credit.
The hooker rushes off to the hotel to pay off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel owner then places the $100 back on the desk so the wealthy traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the traveler comes downstairs and picks up the $100 bill and 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.