It is the month of August.  A resort town sits next to the shores of a lake.

 

It is raining,  and the little town looks totally deserted.  It is tough times.  Everybody is in debt, living on  credit.

 

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

 

He  enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

 

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the  butcher.

 

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

 

The pig farmer takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

 

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that, in these hard times, gave him "services" on credit.

 

The  hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill 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 dollar bill back on the counter so that  the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

 

Soon thereafter, tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill.  He states 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 Government is doing business today.