TomT
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Our very first day on the Valk up on the BRP!
Lynchburg, Virginia
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« on: January 18, 2011, 04:49:57 AM » |
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It is a slow day in a damp little Michigan town. The rain 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 California tourist is
driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a $100 bill on
the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs
in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys
and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the
$100 bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher
takes the $100 and runs down the street to repay 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 Farmers' Co-op takes the
$100 and runs to pay his bar bill at the tavern. The bar owner slips
the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also
been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The
hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel
owner with the $100. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 bill
back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At
that moment the traveller 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 looking to the future with a lot more
optimism.
And that, friends, is how the bailout package works.
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