It is 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, stops at 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, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the Greeks will pay off their
    Eurozone debts.

K.J.