Economics...
It is the month of August, in a small Georgia country town. 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 place to stay, a small bed and breakfast, lays a $100 bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the town butcher.
The Butcher takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig grower takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the feed and seed.
The owner of the feed and seed takes the $100 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 to the hotel proprietor, for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there, with the $100 bill.
The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes downstairs.
After inspecting the rooms, he says that he did not like any of them, takes his $100 bill 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 exactly how the United States Government is doing business today.
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