Something to think about

[arion]

INTERESTING....

It's a slow day in the small town of Moose Jaw, Iowa and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel 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 to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his mechanic.

The mechanic runs to pay his $100 room bill with the hotel Owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.

And that, my friends, is how a "stimulus package" works!

[River]

Money..ha ha ha if we only knew how we are being fooled. It is about as silly as one trying to earn salvation!

[Deborah-Leigh]

...just for fun...change the ending...

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms ARE satisfactory, and STAYS THE NIGHT!

That the rooms "are satisfactory" may be doctrinally or theologically incorrect yet as I said....just for fun... turn the story on its head....sure....

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a true atmosphere of optimism and glee all because one man decided to pay the debt who also, like the one leper who returned to thank Jesus, he is not only healed but restored too and GETS A BONUS 100% INCREASE. Getting your sores healed is one thing but having your limbs restored, that were eaten off by diesease, is a bonus plus increase.

Who will thank Jesus?

An owner of an Inn took care of the bills out of the purse of the good Samaratin making provision for the nearly dead, kicked, robbed and left to die chap in the ditch.

A very pregnant woman riding a Donkey alongside her husband Joseph, were given place to shack up in the manger.

Maybe Joseph was proud of his Donkey like one might find pleasure in his Lamborghini.

Still, by law of attraction to money, comes debt.

The wealth of Kings arrived as frankincense, gold and myrrh only when Jesus reached the age of about two. We learn through Ray Smith, that by the time of the birth of Jesus, Judaism was steeped in paganism.

Our journey out of Babylonian conditions, may not either be the glitz nor glamor of monetary affluence but can be weaning off the addiction to false prestige of worldly status of approval entwined in the root of all evil.


Riding out of Baylon in a Lamborghini or bedecked with silver and gold as were the Hebrews leaving the tyranny of Pharaoh doesn't say much for the thief that comes in the night, who can stay till the morning as Rahab discovered to her salvation! 

Arc

[Craig]

Except that is not the way it works.  Not everyone has debt.  Some will save the money, some will spend on necessities some will spend it on frivolous things.  After everyone uses this $100 the innkeeper gets $25 returned.  The man comes back downstairs and want his money back.  The innkeeper will tell him, sorry I can only give you back $25, but my grand kids and great grand kids will pay you back the rest.

Craig

PS anyone who wants to trade me dollars for quarters please let me know.

[Deborah-Leigh]

LOL! Another excellent alternative, from the same story ~

Arc