Just_G_Since_1978

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES!!!!! Local business people make an enormous and positive contribution to the quality of life in our community. Local businesses create good jobs, and they boost the local tax base, which in turn improves our schools, our parks, and the quality of life in our town. Most importantly, local businesses are invested in our community. If you look behind the scenes at any civic activity that contributes to the common well being of the community, you are likely to find a local business person, giving their time, and often their money, to the common good. The service provided by the voluntary efforts of people who care about our community could not be replaced by any amount of government assistance or tax money. Local business people are the unsung heroes of our community. They are the leaders, the ambitious, hard working people who have ideas and act on them. Local Business Can Reduce Poverty Our nation's founders created this country based on the belief that all people are created equal, that all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Living in want of the basic needs does not bring liberty or happiness, and too many people in our society still live in want.Small and locally owned businesses are an important part of an economy that could provide for everyone. By keeping money local, we can take charge of our economy. Any time a dollar is spent, it generates a dollar's worth of economic activity and employment. If the same dollar is spent several times, then it generates several dollars worth of employment, behaving as if it were several dollars, not just one. Every dollar has the potential to generate benefits several times its face value.If you give your dollars to a chain store, then that money leaves our community and we benefit from it very little. If you spend your money at a locally owned business, then that money is more likely to be spent again and again in the local economy, generating many dollars worth of employment. If a lot of people spend their money locally, then they generate a lot of local employment without inflationary pressure. That's how localism can change the way our entire economy works. We can create employment at the local level, and if a lot of people behave similarly, we can dramatically reduce poverty in our country.