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One Hundred Dollars

Postby Lance » Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:11 pm

A Traveler comes to town and lays a $100 bill on the hotel desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the hotel 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 at the feed store.

The guy at the feed store 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.
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Postby Dragon Star » Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:36 am

Win, good one Lance.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:48 am

:lol: We await Mactep's reply ... :glp-s62:
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Re: One Hundred Dollars

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:34 am

Lance wrote:However, the whole town is now out of debt . . .


And there lies the crux of the matter, as I'm sure KLA2 could have pointed out. :D
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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:07 am

:lol: Accounting involves math, and constructs.

Economics adds philosophy to the mix. :wink:
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Postby tubeswell » Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:03 pm

What was that traveller's name again? And where did he/she go?
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