How debt is reduced in Greece!

It was a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain 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 rich German tourist is driving through the
village. He halts in front of the local hotel and lays a €100 note on
the desk telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs
in order to pick one to spend the night.

The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked
upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay
his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down
the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes
the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and
fuel.

The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his
drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the
local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard
times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then
rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with
the €100 note.

The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so
the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the
traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that
the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything.

However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future
with a lot more optimism.

And that iis how the bailout package works!
So now we all know the secret!!