It is the month of August, 0n the shores of the Black Sea.
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 Euro note on the
reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs
in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs
to pay his debt to the butcher.
The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay
his debt to the pig grower.
The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay
his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note 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 Euro note 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 Euro note 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 Euro note, 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.
