It is the month of April, 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. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
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.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.


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

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.


The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter.

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.

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 UK Government under PM Brown is doing business today. If it aint broke leave it!


MY 18, Autobiography
MY 05, 07, 10,

Another good one

Good but a bit old now! It has been a US$ and an Aussie $ in previous incarnations! Hasn't Gordon Brown gone now? Gone - 2008 Stornoway Grey RRS 2.7 TDV6
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BKHK wrote:

Good but a bit old now! It has been a US$ and an Aussie $ in previous incarnations! Hasn't Gordon Brown gone now?

Not one to be pedantic ....but

Correction: is how the UK Government under PM Brown WAS doing business

Thankfully the one eyed has now gone, just a shame that the coalition now have to spend {probably} 10 years to get us back to where we should be........

I can feel a mini series coming on - "Blair / Brown, Lies, Lies and more Lies with added Boom and Bust"......

.....prudent my arse Gordo. W r. L322 Big Daddy SUPERCHARGED 5.0 Autobiography - Here & Now!

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45 others have been and gone!

Change the beginning of the story to 'prints a $100 note' and you've just explained Quantitative Easing.
Still time to buy Equities, chaps!