While the Chauncy Gardner character had little knowledge beyond the garden, the knowledge of the garden was full of common sense.

His good heart and common sense endeared Chauncy with a very rich industrialist who took him in with the guileful intentions of preventing a lawsuit after his driver hit Chauncy in the city.  However, the industrialist winds up being changed by Chauncy, not the opposite. The man wants to avoid losing a judgment to Chauncy but ends up giving him his entire fortune.

So Chauncy ends up one of the 'old man's' trusted confidants and therefore an unknown who arises as a hero with sage advice. When reporters ask him about declining economic indicators, he explains that gardens have need of light and water. He says that the seasons change and growth will return. There will be winters and there will be springs.

All of which is to say that fear-driven speculation makes no sense. When you know there are winters and springs not only in the seasons of the garden but the economy too, trying to out-smart the seasons makes more people poorer when the sharp practices face the test of winter fronts.

Poor planning isn't an affordable luxury in the world of Chauncy Gardner's common sense. Staying within one's means isn't an elective discipline for a farmer or gardener who lives off of the land. There will be a winter. One must plan for it. That's the long-term economic outlook. However, there will be a spring. How does a nation set up its infrastructure to be free of dislocations imposed from political agendas that do not employ common sense? It plans for the inevitable winters for everyone in the family, not just the land owners and not just the labor.

Common sense also discourages over-reliance on party ideologies. What a novel concept.