It's a slow day in Pahokee. 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 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 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 working girl, who has also been facing hard times and
has had to offer her "services" on credit.
The lady of the night 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.
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