GENTLEMEN This is how a "stimulus package" works

It's a cold 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 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,
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