How the "Stimulus Package" works...

[IRGuy]

It is a slow day in the small American midwest town of Pumphandle, Nebraska and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives into 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 he walks upstairs with the assistant manager, the motel 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 feed 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 motel owner. The motel owner then places the $100 back on the counter so that 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, my friends, is how a "stimulus package" works.

[FidelityJim]

Frank: I'm sure that there's a place for you in the current administration. Maybe you could get them to throw in a boatwell on the Potomac. Jim Hart Fidelity-Always Faithful

[IRGuy]

Jim... I am too much of a Conservative to ever be hired by the Obummer administration. Lets see how the Republicans do.. maybe I could get a job as a senior economist? But come to think of it.. I am too much of a Conservative to be hired by a Republican administration as well.

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Frank, What kind of tea do you like?

[IRGuy]

I am married to a Brit.. I drink whatever she prepares!