$100.00 (stimulus package written for our hobby)

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

A 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.

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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 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 hotel Owner.

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The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so 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 now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.

And that, my friends, is how a "stimulus package" works!

I would think the butcher would have made some $$$ with a solid product that was produced (Pork chops from the pig) as with the Pig farmer (the 4 legged bacon from feed) as with the Co-Op guy (pig chow from his supplier, who happens to be an outside-the-chain resource that was used unless there was a local farmer but that is another tangent.)

The rest of the cycle was just service.

My take is that the people who are producing a physical product aren't managing there business too well.

I can see this thread taking off in all sorts of directions.

Ah, but you are forgetting that stimulus is for the government, not for the peeps. The government gave a union worker $100 to dig a hole, he then went to the hotel and put the $100 on the counter:

The Motel owner took the $100 to the butcher, who had to pay:
3% Local tax, (100 - 3% = $97)
5% State tax, (97 - 5% = $92.15)
10% Federal tax (92.15 - 10% = $82.94)

The Butcher took the $82.94 to the Pig Farmer, who paid his taxes and was left with, $68.78.

The Pig Farmer took the $68.78 to the Co-op supplier, who paid his taxes and was left with, $57.04.

The Co-op takes his $57.04 to pay off the local Provider, who pays no taxes and therefore gives knowlegable eccie members a discount next time, so she now has $57.04.

The Provider then rushes to the Motel Owner and pays off $57.04 in previous room charges.

The Motel Owner puts the $57.04 on the counter and tells the guy the government taxed his $100 with a stimulus tax while he was upstairs, now get the hell out of my motel.

any way you can forward and copy all the politicians in our government, starting with city officials?

city officials won't have time because they are too busy spending money for electrical outlets downtown for cars; building a street car track; funding motion pictures to lure film makers from Hollywood; re-naming streets; and a slew of other MUCH NEEDED things.