How the EU bailout works O/T

[peter9000uk]

It is a slow day in a dusty little Greek town near Thessaloniki . 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 German tourist called Angela Merkle' is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner she wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

 

The owner gives her some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

 

The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.

 

The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

 

The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub.

 

The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit.

 

The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.

 

The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.

 

At that moment the German traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 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 looking to the future with a lot more optimism.

 

That is how the EU bailout package works!

[lovejoy]

VERY Clever !!!

[scooters]

lol -

 

what about Angela Merkle leaving her $100 as compensation for the trashing of greece by her countrymen in the 1940s and for which they have yet to receive any compensation - some folk have short memories!