New twist on cash flow.

[John Schmidt]

It is the month of August, a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. 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 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick  one.

The  hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the  butcher.

The  Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The  pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The  supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar 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 with the 100 dollar bill  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 dollar bill 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 dollar bill, 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.

[Michael K (Az.)]

Stuffy, you must be bored the last few days. You got some great pot stirrers goin for ya!

[John Schmidt]

Sure hope nobody takes me serious on any of the stuff I put up here. Some I agree with, but not much. It does cause a flurry of reactions though doesn't it? Kinda interesting being the devil's advocate at times. 

Been doing a lot in the yard, but have to do it either early or late due to the heat and humidity....usually about the same figure if you recall. Today was 96/96, sweat through my shirt just going out to get the mail.

[Michael K (Az.)]

Yeah, but it's a wet heat.

[alph]

you know, any time someone from the south complains about the heat, i would just like to remind them or our whole three months of summer that we get to enjoy.  my brother lives in Chandler AZ and he's the best, calls every winter and complains that he's sick of wearing his sunglasses and that it's finally getting nice outside!!!

oh, and as for the original story about the $100, that's about it!!  but the one thing he forgot to include is the banker that wants his 21% for the past due creditcard bill!!  not to mention he gets 3% per transaction, and in some cases charges each person $50 a year just to have the Joy of using his card!!  then when he gets in trouble, the government gives his top exectitives an end of the year bonus of $150 million, while increasing the property tax on everyone's home!!  it's not just in the small lake resort town.... it's in all our towns....  the moral of the story, stay out of debt, if you can't afford it, don't buy it.

Al.

[Strong Eagle]

oh, and as for the original story about the $100, that's about it!!  but the one thing he forgot to include is the banker that wants his 21% for the past due creditcard bill!! 

Ahhh... that's why this doesn't work!  The banker pulls his 21 percent and the guy renting the room only gets $79 back.

[Jack]

And don't forget that the government gets about 25% of the $100 in income tax from everybody EXCEPT the prostitute. Therefore all the town debt is settled, but the butcher, pig raiser, food supplier, and hotel owner all now owe the government $25 in taxes. Wait a minute!! That means the government gets the entire $100 !!! So the rich tourist has his $100, and the other four owe the government instead of each other!!

Since none of the four have any money at this point the government now comes in and seizes the properties in a "bail-out". So now the government owns the butcher shop, pigs, feed store, and the hotel; and the former owners now work for the government!!

Each person, EXCEPT the prostitute, was raped by the government.