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HOW DO AMERICANS SURVIVE?

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. 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 choose 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 (prostitute) 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 so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the 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 United States is doing business today...

Update:

Sure Super Girl:-) u r most welcome. Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That is so great and true. I love this. I hope you don't mind but I am copying this and saving it as our background on the computer so my boyfriend can see it. The only problem is that they were paying too little.

  • There are at least three classes of people in the USA, not just the haves and have nots. The rich, the middle-class, and the poor. There are classes within classes also. Those who can't afford usually sponge off those hard working classmen that do strive to "succeed" and "survive". There are other countries that are quite poor and their people survive, so Americans are much better off overall, even with their poor welfare system that pays for deadbeats to sponge off those who choose to work. Yes, there are some who must have welfare, but there are way too many that do not need welfare.

  • 1 decade ago

    Wait a cotton pickin' minute....I've read that 5 times now and...and...based on that formula I'm off to buy a tube of lubricant and a Lamborginni.

    A red one.

  • 1 decade ago

    OMG thats soooo true

    thnx 4 tht xxxx

    thnx for insulting us

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  • 1 decade ago

    one person had lent the money sumwhere and borrowed it elsewhere....when the money came, things were just leveled

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Are you saying Americans don't earn a living on their own? ._.

  • 1 decade ago

    That was interesting but not really accurate.

  • 1 decade ago

    lol. so true.

  • 1 decade ago

    welfare system

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