A very good friend of mine from Switzerland sent me the following story:
It is an overhung day in a small town of a concerned country. It rains and all the streets are empty. Times are not good, everybody is indebted and all people live on borrowed money.
One day, a German tourist drives through the town and stops at a small hotel. He tells the owner that he would like to take a look at the rooms and perhaps rent it for one night. The deposit he puts on the counter is a 100-Euro bill.
The owner hands him a few keys. Then they start:
- soon as the visitor is up the stairs, the hotel owner takes the money, races to see his neighbour the butcher and pays his debts.
- The butcher takes the 100 Euros, runs down the street and pays the farmer.
- The farmer takes the 100 Euros and pays the bill that came in from the association for using storage facilities.
- The gentleman in charge there takes the 100 Euro bill, hastens to the pub and pays his liquor bill.
- The pub owner descreetly hands the bill to a prostitute sitting at the bar. She has seen poor times and allowed the pub owner some liberties on credit.
- The whore runs to the hotel where she pays the hotel bill with the 100 Euros.
- The hotel owner puts the bill back on the counter.
- At the same moment, the traveller comes down the stairs, takes the bill and says that none of the rooms he saw was to his liking, Then he leaves the town.
➩ Nobody produced anything.
➩ Nobody earned anything.
➩ Everybody got rid of their debts and
➩ they all look optimistically towards their future.
So, now you all know how it is done. This is how easy the EU emergency package works.
The author is unknown to us.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
Now we know. Detlev SIX had found it out: The author is Cordt Schnibben. The story is out of Spiegel “Die bürgerliche Kernschmelze”. See the comments.
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