A slow day in a small Texas town (Great Example of How Politicians Work/Think)

It's a slow day in
a small East Texas town. 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 in
which 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 prostitute, who has also been facing hard
times and has had
to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker 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, my friend, is how the
United States Government is
conducting business today.

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