SLOW DAY IN TEXAS
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> It's a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun is beating down, and
> the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and
> everybody lives on credit...
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> On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through
> town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants
> to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
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> As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next
> door to pay his debt to the butcher.
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> The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to
> the pig farmer.
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> The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier
> of feed and fuel.
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> The guy at the Farmer's 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.
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> The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill
> with the hotel owner.
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> The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich
> traveler will not suspect anything.
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> At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill,
> states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves
> town.
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> No one produced anything. No one earned anything.
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> However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with
> a lot more optimism..
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>
> And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is
> conducting business today.
>
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