This is how goverment works

[Redoverfarm]

Although this could actually be in the humor section  it does paint a fairly accurate account of how the goverment runs it's buisness.


It's  a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun
is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are
tough ,  everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit...

On this  particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving
through  town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk
saying  he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick
one to  spend the night.

As soon as the man walks upstairs, the 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 at 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 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,
picks upthe $100 bill, states that the rooms are not
satisfactory, pockets the money, 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 great  optimism.

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

[StinkerBell]

 

[cabinfever]

And the moral of the story is that if you don't live outside your means, you don't have to worry about any of this. I ain't there yet, but I sure am working toward it.

In a democracy, we are the government, and we support this kind of foolishness every time we support the two-party system by voting for either one of them.

[muldoon]

thats an interesting post. 

and true to some extent, there is much trickery and fraudulent accounting going on for sure.  But the real kicker is that while we may be able to save the banks with fraud, and save freddy and fanny, we can only do that because the money isnt real.  When it comes to "real dollars" the government is in dire straits. 

people think and this is something I here all the time, how can we spend trillions to bailout banks but not bail out the states or pay teachers, or pensions, or fill in the blank here.  thats because what we gave the banks was never real.  the money does not exist.  Not only does it not exist for expenditures today, a forward look at whats coming is even worse.  thats the part that isnt so funny. 

I'v been saying for some time, we already crashed.  It just is not evenly distributed or "landed" yet.  Its landing tho, one household at a time.  Complaining about a 2 party system is a valid point, however we have already crossed the proverbial Rubicon on this.  There is no solution we can "vote" for to reverse this.  The situation seen today is the manifestation of PREVIOUS maleficence and fraud.  It's a past event becoming evident now, not an event occurring now. 

Like I said, my take is not as funny as Reds post.