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Faster horses

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Subject: $100.00 Bill.

Its a slow day in a little West 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 up the $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 looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

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

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Its been happening since the 1980's- the making of this country into a "service" industry country.. ( Which only the hooker fulfills the job well :roll: )..

As Ross Perot said in 1992- " that giant sucking sound"...

Its what you get when administration after administration signs every Free Trade Agreement that comes along (that the corporate world asks for)- and then allows the country to be walmarted to those foreign entities- which the US can not compete against if it wants to retain its standard of living...
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
Its been happening since the 1980's- the making of this country into a "service" industry country.. ( Which only the hooker fulfills the job well :roll: )..

As Ross Perot said in 1992- " that giant sucking sound"...

Its what you get when administration after administration signs every Free Trade Agreement that comes along (that the corporate world asks for)- and then allows the country to be walmarted to those foreign entities- which the US can not compete against if it wants to retain its standard of living...

maybe it's the standard of living that needs to be adjusted.

sounds like the shine is wearing off of your Chosen One, OT?
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
Its been happening since the 1980's- the making of this country into a "service" industry country.. ( Which only the hooker fulfills the job well :roll: )..

As Ross Perot said in 1992- " that giant sucking sound"...

Its what you get when administration after administration signs every Free Trade Agreement that comes along (that the corporate world asks for)- and then allows the country to be walmarted to those foreign entities- which the US can not compete against if it wants to retain its standard of living...

maybe it's the standard of living that needs to be adjusted.

sounds like the shine is wearing off of your Chosen One, OT?

Well the last administration did all it could to lower our living standard- and along with GHW and Clinton signed every trade agreement that the Corporate world stuck in front of them- and the Chosen One's (as you put it) opponent was waving the Free Trade flags as he proclaimed "I am the biggest free trader you will ever see"....
So I still think we got the best choice as far as looking out for our own country- products- and labor first...

But I often wonder how different this country would have been if Ross Perot could have gotten elected.... :???:
 

backhoeboogie

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My standard of living just keeps going up. Been that way most of my working life. Didn't prgress as well under Clinton and last year was the worse income year in the past 11 years under Obama.

My standard of living will continue to improve, but then again, I am not expecting the government to give me a free ride.
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
Its been happening since the 1980's- the making of this country into a "service" industry country.. ( Which only the hooker fulfills the job well :roll: )..

As Ross Perot said in 1992- " that giant sucking sound"...

Its what you get when administration after administration signs every Free Trade Agreement that comes along (that the corporate world asks for)- and then allows the country to be walmarted to those foreign entities- which the US can not compete against if it wants to retain its standard of living...

maybe it's the standard of living that needs to be adjusted.

sounds like the shine is wearing off of your Chosen One, OT?

Well the last administration did all it could to lower our living standard- and along with GHW and Clinton signed every trade agreement that the Corporate world stuck in front of them- and the Chosen One's (as you put it) opponent was waving the Free Trade flags as he proclaimed "I am the biggest free trader you will ever see"....
So I still think we got the best choice as far as looking out for our own country- products- and labor first...

But I often wonder how different this country would have been if Ross Perot could have gotten elected.... :???:

You believed obama when he talked about Free Trade?

What else were you so gullible on?


I notice obama had to send Gates to Columbia to discuss Free Trade, he must not want word to get out. He wouldn't want to upset the Unions or OT with the truth.

BOGOTA — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday pushed for a stronger trade relationship with Colombia as part of his efforts to solidify support for the United States in a region where rival countries, both friends and foes, are attempting to expand their influence.

Iran is trying to expand its influence in the region, and Russia and China are making commercial inroads.

Gates said he hopes to see a "renewed effort" to finalize a free trade agreement with Colombia, which he hailed as a "linchpin of security and prosperity in South America."

"It's a good deal for Colombia. It's also a good deal for the United States," Gates said.

Gates' remarks followed meetings with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Defense Minister Gabriel Silva, where he said the issue was raised.

President Barack Obama has pushed to advance free trade with Colombia, even discussing the matter last year with Uribe at the White House. More broadly, Obama has outlined a plan that he says would double trade in the next five years and also support 2 million American jobs.

But the issue has been tricky politically, where lawmakers are skeptical that free trade agreements won't cost American jobs.
 
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