[Reader-list] Fwd: Nice story

[Jeebesh]

It is really a funny loop :)

Begin forwarded message:

> It is the month of June, on the shores of the Black Sea.
>
> It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is  
> tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
>
> Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
>
> He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception  
> counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
>
> The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his  
> debt to the butcher.
>
> The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the  
> pig grower.
>
> The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to  
> the supplier of his feed and fuel.
>
> The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to  
> pay his debt to the town prostitute that in these hard times, gave  
> her services on credit.
>
> The prostitute runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100  
> Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she  
> rented when she brought her clients there.
>
> The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter  
> so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
>
> At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the  
> rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not  
> like any of the rooms, and leaves town.
>
> No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt,  
> and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
>
> This is how the United States Government is doing business today.