How Obama's Economic Recovery Plan Works

[AZGrizFan]

It is the month of August, 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's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker 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.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

[Cap'n Cat]

Cute. My fifth grader got that in an e-mail, too.

[D1B]

Yeah, Z is that another "authentic" email your brother sent to you?

What a freaking schlubb!

[AZGrizFan]

Yeah, Z is that another "authentic" email your brother sent to you?

What a freaking schlubb!

I just thought it was funny. You know you did too.

[D1B]

Yeah, Z is that another "authentic" email your brother sent to you?

What a freaking schlubb!

I just thought it was funny. You know you did too.

Didn't read it Carmine. I never read any of your bullshit.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

[Appaholic]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

Nobody had to bail out a bank president.....

[grizzaholic]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

Nobody had to bail out a bank president.....

Because they didn't have any of their money in the bank that they worked at.

[Cap'n Cat]

I just thought it was funny. You know you did too.

Didn't read it Carmine. I never read any of your bullshit.

What a fucking dick!

[Gil Dobie]

Does Obama have a Smack recovery program.

[AZGrizFan]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

Why does it NOT surprise me that you would find this perfectly acceptible.

[BlueHen86]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

The beef is that the hotel owner actually lost 100 euro. The hooker that owed him 100 euro no longer does.

The entire local community is also out 100 euro since the tourist left town.

[AZGrizFan]

z, i'm gonna just toss this out there, and not saying i'm even accepting the premise of this jibber-jabber.

what's wrong with this scenario? the money changes hands, debt is reduced, consumer confidence is boosted and people may be inclined to get money moving again... what's the beef?

The beef is that the hotel owner actually lost 100 euro. The hooker that owed him 100 euro no longer does.

The entire local community is also out 100 euro since the tourist left town.

That's why TTBF is fine with it. Big business got screwed, so that's ok.