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Greek crisis, what crisis?  

By: zzstar in FFFT | Recommend this post (1)
Wed, 09 Nov 11 4:02 AM | 50 view(s)
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It's a beautiful day in a small Greek village. All the streets are empty. These are bad times, everyone has debts and all live on credit.
On this day a wealthy Dutch tourist visits this Greek village and stops at a small hotel.
He tells the owner that he would like to see the rooms, maybe he will stay one night, and as a deposit he puts 100 euros on the desk.
The owner gives him a pair of keys.
When the visitor goes upstairs, the hotel owner takes the money, runs to the butcher, his neighbor, and pays him his debts.
The butcher takes the 100 euros, walks down the street and pays his own debt to the farmer.
The farmer takes the money and pays his bill to the guy who has the cold storage.
The man then takes the money and runs to the pub to pay his bar tab.
The bartender moves the money to a prostitute sitting at the bar, to whom he was indebted.
The prostitute runs to the hotel to pay the hotelier 100 euros.
The hotel manager puts the money back on the counter.
At the same moment, the tourist comes downstairs, takes the money from the counter, says that he does not want the room and leaves.
No one has produced anything.
No one has earned anything.
Everyone has paid his debts and faces the future with optimism.
So, now you know how it works.
It's so simple this rescue package!

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