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Seimei
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posted November 06, 2015 03:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Seimei     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is the month of August, 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.
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> Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
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> 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.
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> The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
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> The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.
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> The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
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> The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute who in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.
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> The hooker 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.
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> The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
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> 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.
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> No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt and looks to the future with a lot of optimism..
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> And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States government is doing business today.

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PixieJane
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posted November 06, 2015 06:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I first heard the above explaining Greece's economy. (But then many jokes the Soviets told about the Soviet Union were adopted by Americans to tell about their own government as well, like the government taking over the Sahara to report a shortage of sand in 5 years--the 5 years based on the old "5 year plans" of the Soviet Union.)

I think this fun vid is closer to America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8flfOeWMPQ

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Seimei
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posted November 06, 2015 07:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Seimei     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by PixieJane:
I first heard the above explaining Greece's economy. (But then many jokes the Soviets told about the Soviet Union were adopted by Americans to tell about their own government as well, like the government taking over the Sahara to report a shortage of sand in 5 years--the 5 years based on the old "5 year plans" of the Soviet Union.)

I think this fun vid is closer to America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8flfOeWMPQ


I guess both being largely true are not funny but sad.
The reality is the the United States is gone, has been for a LONG time and people just don't realize it.
The word America is the most misused word in the world, just ask a Canadian.

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