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Makes sense to me - 2/24/2010 7:43:37 AM

mydestiny2043

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It is a slow day in the small Minnesota town of Marshall , and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A rich tourist visiting the area drives through 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, 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 supplier, the Farmer's Co-op.

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.

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 rich 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 town.

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.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/24/2010 7:44:46 AM

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Who got the lefse?

You from Marshall?

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/24/2010 7:56:37 AM

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Except that the motel owner got "stimulussed" out of 100 bucks.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/24/2010 11:38:36 PM

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mrbob726, you read my mind. The hotel owner got stiffed.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 12:23:49 AM

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quote:

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mrbob726, you read my mind. The hotel owner got stiffed.

Not really. Everyone in the circle, including the hotel owner, collected a debt and paid a debt with the rich guy getting his money back in full. So everyone (except the rich guy) now owes $100 less than they did before. The hotel owner did not end up with the $100 in his pocket, but neither did anybody else in the circle.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 8:17:41 AM

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Another one that may or may not belong in Humor. But here it is and I am in no position to hold judgement.

However I do think it a good example of the fact that you never really have money, you just use it.

The room did not get rented, the owner stole that money and just had it back in time. But he did give it back and noone was the wiser. The money circulated, and money is worthless for anything else but a mode of exchange. While an interesting scenario, I don't think it is quite how a stimulus works, if it does indeed work. That remains to be seen. I don't have alot of confidence in it to say the least. All a local bunch of shit in the OP, nothing was produced. Nothing left the venue or was really sold. Nothing happened really, except some debts were cancelled.

If not for the debt, it could not happen. In a viable economy very little is required in the way of stimulii. The occasional variance in building codes goes a long way, as long as someone wants to build. Temporary tax abatements are good as well, but are not really all that sound. We need to MAKE business return, and the only way that is acceptable to most would be to change the environment here to suit. But there are some who just won't do it. We need is what I have coined dirty zones. On the less populare zones of our coastal regions, all the nastiest pollution is blown out over the sea. Wrong yes, but right for us. And if we don't pollute someone else will, and there is only one biosphere here, unless someone has been hiding another. So in the end there is no difference except one, WE GET THE MONEY !

What would you do ?

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 8:39:16 AM

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wrong - the hotel owner was paid the hookers dept, but he wasn't able to keep it, as he had to return it to the "almost" customer - so he had to write off the $100 on his "receivables" column.

There ain't no free lunch, and the hotel owner paid for it -the buck stopped with the "rich guy"

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 10:24:58 AM

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Yeah, but the Hotel owner had already paid off $100 of his debt with money that wasn't his yet - so he really doesn't come out behind in the deal.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 12:16:16 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

FR

Another one that may or may not belong in Humor. But here it is and I am in no position to hold judgement.

Ok and FR,
It was presented to me as humor,and because I found it funny in a sick dimented way, I presented it to the forum in the same way as it was recieved. How you choose to see it is on you. Have a nice day.

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 1:36:02 PM

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thats funny, but i could see that happening in some small town somewhere lol

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RE: Makes sense to me - 2/25/2010 10:21:56 PM

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It's the logic that's funny really. A bunch of debts got paid but no real money was made. They just slid around the same pile in the end, like the rest of the country.

Now if the rich guy had rented a room, all those debts would be paid and there would be another hundred bucks in circulation. The hotelier could've offered the whole floor, if all the rooms were empty. But then it may have been the decor or something.

What's even more funny is that I can't sleep trying to make such a scam workable for me. Somehow, someway.........

The other thing about this is that nobody lost. A unique scenario to say the least.

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