Best Interest In The Heart
by George Josserme

I would like to elaborate on something which is not difficult to understand. It is not at all, really. I suspect that not everybody is aware of it. It is the reason why I thought that I should explain it in simple terms, and then, make a point that has the power to make a huge difference to your economy and mine. Please, bear with me.

The economy of any society will enjoy strong growth as long as goods made and / or manufactured by citizens of that society are purchased. I make chairs and you buy my chairs. You make TV sets and I purchase one of yours. Your money and mine keeps circulating within our society generating profits, providing wages for employees, and creating the much needed revenues the administration needs to provide a wide range of services to the society. The process is simple.

It is truly important and certainly of paramount importance because that process creates the main ingredients needed for an economy to function; and to do so in a healthy manner. Should you or I or the both of us sell the chairs and the TV sets we make to other societies or countries, the economy of our own country will grow in size like a balloon. Again, the reason is simple. There is now money pouring in our economy from abroad. Literally, it is someone else’s money which becomes ours after we sell our products.

That “new money” ~just to give it a name~ is now responsible for creating more jobs, more money available for better wages, more money to invest in making our products better, more revenues for our administration to provide not only more but better services, and the list goes on and on. It is easy to anticipate that such flourishing conditions turns an economy into an upward spiral of success and benefits for all citizens.

Let’s for a minute imagine another situation. Although you and I continue to make and to buy our own products and also sell them to other countries, you and I ~and a huge number of people in our country~ purchase from other countries more goods than the chairs and TV sets that you and I sell to other countries. We now have a balloon that once was big and well inflated, but it is gradually and almost imperceptibly deflating. More air is going out of the balloon than air is coming in the balloon. In other words, our economy is losing strength. Fewer jobs, poorer wages, less revenues for the administration, and on and on and on.

Would you need me to tell you that if that condition persists for long
enough the balloon eventually deflates to a level that force a larger
number of citizens to suffer consequences of fewer jobs available ?

Would you need me to tell you that fewer taxes force an administration
to cut services or to make too many of them to disappear altogether ?

Would you need me to tell you that wages will become meager as the
standard of living many citizens used to enjoy notably deteriorates ?

I hope that you did not need me to tell you any of it.
All of the above means that next time you purchase something, you should tell yourself if you are helping to inflate the balloon buying products from people in your own country or if you are deflating the balloon by sending your money out of your country to inflate someone else’s balloon. Should you and I ~and millions of people like you and I~ keep on purchasing substantial number of products on a daily basis with no regard as to where they are made, we will inescapably pay a dire price and the expected consequences of not even thinking about it.

Should we not care about any of it,
we then deserve the consequences.


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