Economics, the trade deficit, the government spending deficit, jobs for Americans, and the buying power or value of the U.S. dollar are all interrelated. Each of these principles affect each of the others, and each is very important. These subjects need to be understood by the general public. Economics is not that complicated. It is interlocked with understandable cause and effect principals of various economic action options that can be totally understood by almost any high school graduate, and/or most high school drop outs.

Real wealth and real monetary value is created and/or acquired ONLY when the members of a family (or a nation, tribe, city-state, etc.) plant, grow and/or harvest something of commercial value from the earth, extract something of commercial value from the earth, provide professional services (medical, legal, dental, engineering, architecture, accounting, land surveying, technology, etc.) to others outside of that family, and/or manufacture or construct something of commercial value that is consumable (or permanently useful for income or rent) and then SELLS, LEASES OR RENTS these items and/or services to parties outside of their family. IN RETURN THEY GET A NET TRANSFER OF GOLD, CURRENCY OR COMMODITIES from other parties outside of their family into their own family. The members of that family can reflect their real wealth with the accumulation of grain, gold, cattle, jewels, land, buildings, commodities and/or other marketable products for reserve use in times of emergency and/or also to raise the standard of living for the members of that family.

Various U.S. government environmental and economic policies have encouraged U.S. companies to cease manufacturing things for U.S. consumption and export in order to generate national wealth, and instead encouraged U.S. citizens to import these consumer items in exchange for titles to existing U.S. wealth such as privately owned land, hotels, farms, businesses, casinos, stocks, equities, securities and other wealth and assets of monetary value that are located in the USA and were created by previous generations of US citizens. This wealth is then transferred to foreigners and governments in industrialized foreign nations where foreign governments elected to industrialize and generate wealth by making and exporting consumer items to the USA and other countries.

When the Biblical Jacob’s family faced starvation, Jacob took his family to Egypt where there was grain stored and hoarded by the greedy Egyptians to ensure the survival of Egyptians during times of drought and famine. Jacob and his descendants probably submitted themselves to be slaves of the Egyptians in return for food and shelter. Is the U.S. government repeating these actions?

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