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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on March 08, 2010, 21:38:58 PM

Title: Quantitive Easing
Post by: Highlander on March 08, 2010, 21:38:58 PM

It's a slow day in a little Scottish 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 down south is driving through town. He stops at a hotel and lays a £50 note 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 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.


The butcher takes the £50 and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.



The pig farmer takes the £50 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.



The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the £50 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 £50 back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.



At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the £50 note, 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 now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.


And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the British Government is conducting business today..

Title: Quantitive Easing
Post by: kenkay on March 08, 2010, 22:35:47 PM

Brilliant  8)

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Post by: stoop on March 08, 2010, 22:45:44 PM

Ha ha

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Post by: Scunner on March 08, 2010, 22:48:30 PM

What a load of rubbish that is. The sun beating down on a Scottish town!

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Post by: Highlander on March 08, 2010, 22:49:43 PM

Strangely it was here today - beautiful. :)

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Post by: miaspyro on March 09, 2010, 09:15:12 AM

well done, but my scottish friends said it was daft cause no scott would ever put the £50 note back on the counter.   lol

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Post by: puma on March 09, 2010, 09:24:20 AM

brilliant.i liked it H

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Post by: tintin1504 on March 09, 2010, 11:10:11 AM

Me too! Brilliant!T

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Post by: Harmless on March 09, 2010, 11:49:21 AM

Excellent, made me smile

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Post by: cinders on March 09, 2010, 17:04:53 PM

ha ha this is how to make ones money go round (so good)
thanks for that

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Post by: scot on March 09, 2010, 18:45:59 PM

Very good.
Bruce

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Post by: cheers on March 09, 2010, 21:32:53 PM

Good laugh thanks!!

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Post by: laffa on March 09, 2010, 23:08:18 PM

Very good H, especially the sunshine bit, ;)