Just got this from a friend..........
It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and 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.
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.
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 is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.
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Glad you enjoyed!
I think you should have every effort made in order to save you.
After all, you saved my thread from the ignominious fate of no responses...........
That flaw made me put the last sentence in bold. I wasn't sure it really worked.
I didn’t want to be a smart ass. But if you agree, Then I know my math is correct. 
But a bigger point evolved—how things that seem so correct intuitively can be at odds with reality. It’s one of Trump’s favorite propaganda tricks.
My current rant: we need to stop saying “open” and “reopen”, that is Trump framing. States don’t open or close like an amusement park or jar of mayonnaise.
The words “open” or “close” make the event seem precise and simple, when in fact it is staged and messy. That bastadization of the language is another Trump propaganda weapon.
Thanks Peggy, this is pure gold.
Ok if I spread it around a bit?
There's a few people I know who would love it! 
Of course you may spread it around! After all, I took it from my girlfriend so all of you could see it!
She is a Republican! 
And no one owes more then $100.
Imagine if the hooker wanted to eat too.
And the hotel guy needed food AND electric.
And the butcher’s freezer broke down.
And the pig farmer needed...whatever pig farmers needed.
and I am certainly not a germaphobe, but I kept picturing germs spreading on that $100 bill!
Suddenly one sunny day, a hooker in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle has an epiphany caused by watching Little House re-runs on TV and decides to take a humanist view of life.
She runs to the guy at the Co-op and tells him because she misrepresented her abilities numerous times, she's forgiving his $100 debt and he can consider her past services a gift of love.
The Co-op man takes this moment to heart, runs to the pig farmer and admits he's overcharged him for years for low-grade feed and forgives his $100 debt.
The pig farmer takes this moment to heart, visits the butcher and admits he's been in cahoots with the weigh scale man for years so he received less pork than he thought and forgives his $100 debt.
This event bring forth an epiphany in the butcher that he's been watching too much Fox-Canada and should make amends with the motel owner, to whom he's sold inferior cuts of meat for decades.
The butcher visits the motel owner, apologizes for his corruption and forgives his $100 debt. This shakes the motel man to his very core.
A tourist visiting the area stops at the motel and to his surprise the motel owner offers him two free rooms for the night if he will cater to the other businesses in town. The visitor whole-heartedly agrees and brings his extended family in from his van.
The visiting family loves the town and stays for a full week, spending their entire vacation budget of $1,000 within the town, including big meals at the motel's restaurant, sausage to take home from the butcher, big bags of chicken feed from the Co-op and the family's lonely uncle sneaks in two late-night visits to the hooker.
The town is now out of debt and $1,000 more wealthy. The vacationing family is happy and will return next year.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how humility, honesty, and a healthy community works.
KY...............
Thank you for your imaginative re-telling!
which gave me chance for a good dose of humanist thinking and emotional release in writing it.
Excellent way to gain a little peace in this age of tremendous turmoil.
KY.............
Perfect - full circle 
That's what I did!
Keynes believed that economics largely revolved around demand. Now demand is not just people wanting stuff. It is also about people having the ability to buy or barter for stuff. It is why FDR created the WPA and the CCC so that regular people would have jobs, get important stuff done, and then have money to buy things like food and clothing. It is why Bill Clinton created a massive infrastructure program. It is why Obama created a $787 billion stimulus package. It is always why Trump singed a stimulus package worth over $2 Trillion. When the economy crashes, only Keynesian Demand-Side Economics makes the economy move again, and you can tell Supply Side Economic Republicans to go pound sand! 
