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.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcmaster199@aol.com">rcmaster199@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Since it is 3 weeks to the Nats and hardly anyone has noticed on these pages, here's something to chew on<br>
<br><br>It is a slow day in the East Texas town of Madisonville.<br><br>It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.<br>Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.<br>On this particular day a rich tourist from the East is driving through town.<br>
<br>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.<br>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.<br>
<br>The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to pay his debt to the pig farmer.<br>The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to the supplier of feed and fuel.<br><br>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.<br>
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.<br><br>The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.<br>
<br>At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs, after inspecting the rooms.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>No one earned anything. However the whole town is now out of debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.<br><br>That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today.<br>
<br>If that lesson doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what will.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br>
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