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18/04/2020 4:31 pm
How a Stimulus Package really works. Note: mild X Rating.
It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and 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 bill to 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 that 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 .
18/04/2020 5:26 pm
Ha! That's about right!
:))
18/04/2020 5:52 pm
"Right On!"
18/04/2020 5:55 pm
Funny and true.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
19/04/2020 2:49 am
LOL. Not exactly. As soon as the customer took his hundred bucks back the inn keeper defaulted on his utility bill, had his gas cut off and could only serve salads in the dining room.
All of the butcher's meat was reposessed.
The pork farmer was cut off by the coop owner, his bank charged him $35 for the bounced check, his credit was ruined, couldn't feed his stock and lost his farm.
The coop owner got a freebie from the prostitute, but had no income from the pig farmer, went into default on his harvester, couldn't reap his grain and went bankrupt.
The hooker made five hundred dollars that day and then skipped town.
19/04/2020 3:36 am
That's only fair considering she had the oldest profession of them all.
19/04/2020 5:49 am
+100
19/04/2020 6:04 am
Excellent !!!
19/04/2020 7:52 am
There ya go! See, we have nothing to worry about....right??
19/04/2020 8:33 am
+5
19/04/2020 8:33 am
+5
19/04/2020 8:35 am
Sorry Jack....jumpy mouse.....I`m `a need to get that extra 5 back
19/04/2020 1:32 pm
LOL!
John Bono
North Jersey