英語検定ライティング準１級（第168回）

デフレ「アベノミクスはどこかに行った話」

経済用語でスタグフレーションという有名な語句がある。景気が悪いのに物価が上がることだ。物価が高くても収入が適切であればものは売れる。ものが売れれば収入も上がるはずだが。
We might learn the economics term “stagflation,” which is a famous word and an examinee should understand this vital phrase when he or she take an exam.
The cost of living rises even when the economy isn’t doing well, which makes our life challenging.
The moderate income could offset the high prices, and the commodities should sell well, and we could gain enough salary as we buy what we need.
But this isn’t the truth in our society in recent years.

経済活動とはものを作ることから始まる。そしてものを売る｡会社は儲かる。給料をもらう。ものを買う。このサイクルが継続すると経済が回ると言う。だが正常は永久なものではない。
The economic activities would start to run when we produce what we need, and a shop or a store sell what workers make, and laborers gain proper wages, and consumers purchase what they need.
This cycle could make our economic activities normal, which is called “the economic works well.”
However, what is normal won’t last forever, to our regret.

今は賃金が上がってないわけではない。ただ物価はそれ以上に上がっている。だからものは売れない。食べないわけにはいかないから食糧は売れる。ただし質は悪いが安いものが売れる。
Our wages have risen little by little in recent years, the cost of living outweighs our salaries, so ordinary citizens tend to refrain from paying extra money.
Such a situation prevents consumers from buying what is unnecessary in their daily life.
We cannot avoid buying what we eat in order to live.
But we would buy something inexpensive, which doesn’t seem satisfactory in the nutritional viewpoint.

これは体調を崩すかもしれない。となると病院にかからざるを得ない。医療費の幾らかは国が負担する。国家財政に響く。消費税を上げねばとなる。負の連鎖だ。日本の未来は暗いのだ。
This behavior might make negative contributions to our physical condition, as a result, numerous ordinary citizens could see a doctor in the hospital, which might have negative influences on the national revenues because most of the patients’ medical expenses must be paid by the government, we must remember.
The ministry of finance forces the government to raise the consumption taxation.
We find this cycle the downward spiral, which never fail to make Japan’s future something dark and grave.