NAMA - My Downfall

NAMA explained ....now you know.
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> It is the month of August, a resort town sits next to the shores of a
> lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is
> tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
>
> Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel,
> lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the
> rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
>
> The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt
> to the butcher.The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his
> debt to the pig raiser.The pig raiser takes the 100 Euro note, and
> runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.The supplier
> of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the
> town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on
> credit.The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100
> Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented
> when she brought her clients there.
>
> The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so
> that the rich tourist will not suspect anything. At that moment, the
> rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100
> Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and
> leaves town.
>
> No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and
> looks to the future with a lot of optimism .
>
> And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the Irish Government is doing
> business today.
 
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