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 choose 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 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 is doing business today.
