It is the month of April 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 drostitute that in these hard times,

gave her "services" on credit.

The booker 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.

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 is doing

business today.

At least the booker and the hogs made out okay.

SKIP