"How A Stimulus Package Works" EXAMPLE: The $100 Bill .
It's a slow day in the small town of 'Pump-Handle' and the 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 the
tourist walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next
door to pay his debt to the butcher.
(Stay with this…and pay attention)
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
%%+%*# rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel
owner. (Almost done...keep reading)
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 now thinks
that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism
and glee. And that, my friends, is how a "stimulus package" works..