Ecomomics 101

An insight on how the U. S. conducts business these days.

It is a slow day in the East Texas town of  Madisonville.

It is raining, and the little town looks  totally deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich tourist from the  East is driving through town.

He enters the only hotel in the sleepy town and lays a hundred dollar bill on the desk stating he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

As soon as the man walks up the stairs, the hotel proprietor takes the hundred dollar bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the  street to pay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to the supplier of feed and fuel.

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 lately had to offer her “services” on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel and pays off her debt with the $100 to the hotel proprietor,  paying for the rooms that she had rented when she brought clients to that establishment.

The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect  anything.

At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs, after inspecting the rooms.

He picks up the $100 bill and states that the  rooms are not satisfactory…… Pockets the  money and walks out the door and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However the whole town is now out of debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how the United  States Government is conducting business today.

If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, then I don’t know what will.

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Through barter, we are able to help people make more money, while saving them money to pay off their debts.  As a small business owner, perhaps even the owner of that hotel, you could have paid your “debt” by giving another business owner a night in your unused hotel room.

Doesn’t that just make sense?  Using your unused capacity (unsold advertising space in a newspaper, or an empty seat on a bus) to pay your bills… You’re still providing value to the economy… shouldn’t you get credited for it?

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