Grady was explaining how stimulus works in Saskatchewan. Everyone knows there are no prostitutes in North Carolina, so I'm surprised it works there at all :)

>Very funny! :o) However, even with all the problems in reporting (further down the article it gets interesting):
>http://www.propublica.org/article/white-house-changes-stimulus-jobs-count-111
>jobs have been created and roads and bridges and golf courses are being built :o) North Carolina has a lot of that construction going on...
>
>>It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and
>>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 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 hotel and pays off her 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 is now out of debt and looks to the future with a lot more
>>optimism.
>>
>>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.