Modern "Deaf Joke" Economic Lesson

(This is a joke. It's not intended to offend anyone.)

 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 Peter Cook, an ASL Poet 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 to spend the night.

As soon as Peter Cook walks upstairs, the owner, Bernard Bragg, grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the beautician, Laurent Clerc.

Laurent Clerc takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the law firm of Alexander Bell, Marlee Matlin, and Robert Weibrecht (BMW).

Bell, Matlin, Weibrecht (BMW) take the $100 and head off to the bank of DeafRead to pay their bill off to Helen Keller.

Helen Keller takes the $100 and runs to pay her gambling debt to the booker, Dummy Hoy, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer his “services” on credit.

Dummy Hoy rushes to the hotel and pays off his room bill to Bernard Bragg.

Bernard Bragg then places the $100 back on the counter so Peter Cook will not suspect anything.

At that moment Peter Cook 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 now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

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