[NSRCA-discussion] Eco 101

[Derek Koopowitz]

It wasn't like this last year and for the past 8 years?  Seems to me this
all started just a short 18 months ago.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, <rcmaster199 at aol.com> wrote:

> Since it is 3 weeks to the Nats and hardly anyone has noticed on these
> pages, here's something to chew on
>
>
> It is a slow day in the East Texas town of Madisonville.
>
> It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.
> Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.
> On this particular day a rich tourist from the East is driving through
> town.
>
> He enters the only hotel in the sleepy town and lays a hundred dollar bill
> on the desk stating he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick
> one to spend the night.
> As soon as the man walks up the stairs, the hotel proprietor takes the
> hundred dollar bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
>
> The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to pay his debt to the
> pig farmer.
> The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to 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 lately had
> to offer her "services" on credit.
> The hooker runs to the hotel and pays off her debt with the $100 to the
> hotel proprietor, paying for the rooms that she had rented when she brought
> clients to that establishment.
>
> The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the
> rich traveler will not suspect anything.
>
> At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs, after
> inspecting the rooms.
>
> He picks up the $100 bill and states that the rooms are not
> satisfactory......  Pockets the money and walks out the door and leaves
> town.
>
> No one earned anything.  However the whole town is now out of debt, and
> looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
>
> That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is
> conducting business today.
>
> If that lesson doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what
> will.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nsrca.org/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20090701/8834d465/attachment.html>