[NSRCA-discussion] Eco 101

[Bill Glaze]

Exactly.  Bill Glaze
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> 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.
> 
> 
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