Fw: This is how a stimulus package works...

It is a slow day in the small Montana town
of Pumphandle, and the streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and
everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting
the area drives through town, stops at the motel,
and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants
to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the
night. As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel
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 supplier, the Co-op. The
guy at the 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 traveler will not suspect
anything. At that moment the traveler comes down
the stairs, states tat the rooms are not satisfactory,
picks up the $100 bill and leaves. 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, ladies
and gentlemen, is how a stimulus package works.



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*Contributed by my dear friend Chandrasekhar G