MOTEL 6 & TACO BELL CAN'T SAVE US

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A few weeks ago, my old buddy Cranium sent the following little story to me in an Email. It’s undoubtedly making the rounds as I type this, so some of you may have already seen it, but for those who haven’t . . .

A SLOW DAY IN TEXAS

It's a slow day in a little East 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 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 in which 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 motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner.

The motel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter.

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.

I will add to this, however, that what if the tourist never comes to town because times are hard and he doesn’t have the extra funds for travelling like he once did?

That is where the country is really heading in this imagined scenario. The Dog Days Of Depression will soon be upon us. And why? Lots of reasons. But not the least of them is that this nation no longer produces anything of real substance - meaning, we don’t generate our own wealth. Company owners want cheap labor to maximize profits and American consumers want products as cheaply priced as possible and dividends on their stock purchases. And so, businesses that want to remain competitive flee the U.S. and reestablish themselves over seas, making use of the cheap (and sometimes “slave”) labor.

While the prosperity of America plummets because American workers are laid off and left unemployed, China we are making wealthy by spending the money we acquire through service oriented businesses like Motel 6 on foreign-made electronics and building supplies. China, by the way, hates us and is undoubtedly thinking:

Give ‘em enough rope . . .

~ Stephen T. McCarthy

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