Abdulkadir Özkan: "Prices do not decrease with orders"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "Prices do not decrease with orders"
Date: 25.5.2022 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on economy. Here is the full article.

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Price increases are now one of the daily problems of our people. Because while the prices are high, people's purchasing power decreases, let alone the rise in people's incomes to meet the price increases. In fact, we have come to such a point that, let alone an increase in the wages of those with low and fixed incomes, to meet the price increases, the previous one is searched every day. In this way, it has come to the point that it will happen even if our incomes do not increase, let alone an increase in income, let alone an increase in prices.
 
In the government, which has to protect the narrow and fixed incomes against price increases, it is seen that the government has no such power at the point reached. Because, the healthy way to protect the low-income and fixed-income people against price increases is the government's need to provide this group with unrequited support to help them get through the troubled period. However, it is seen that the state is also getting into debt, interest payments are increasing with the borrowing, and the income-expenditure balance cannot be achieved at this point. In other words, since the state has lost the opportunity to directly support producers and consumers, it is trying to stop price increases with the instructions and market inspections. Even though companies that make unfair price increases are punished, the increases cannot be prevented, let alone the withdrawal of prices. As a result, our people's debt to banks is constantly increasing. We can say that economic problems only benefit banks. In other words, while the system makes those with money even richer, it is seen that at the point reached, those who are defined as the middle class, those at the middle income level join the poor, and there are two classes in the society consisting of the rich and the poor.
 
At this point, it becomes difficult for our young people who have reached the age of marriage to open their thoughts to their families. Because they see that the prices in the bazaar are constantly increasing and that their father is having trouble meeting the needs of the house. Because young people who have finished their schooling and started a job are aware that they cannot support their house with the money they receive. Although the rulers of the country paint rosy pictures at every opportunity and say that our country is flying, the fact that this is not reflected in life inevitably brings disappointment with it.
 
It would not be wrong to say that our young people, who have just started their lives, no longer dream of owning a house. Is it possible for young people, who cannot even dream of owning a house, to rent a house, furnish it and pursue their dreams of building a home? Let me just say that although they are thinking of getting married, young people who see that it is not possible to establish a new home and maintain it without the support of their families, cancel their dreams for the future on the first day of their life. However, years ago, our young people were not as helpless as they are today when it comes to getting married and starting a family. As such, the age at which young people get married is constantly rising. Another strange thing is that people are asking why our population growth is falling. Young people who have finished school get a job with minimum wage. If they could find a job, of course. Those who cannot find it are already dragged into the whirlpool of pessimism at the beginning of life.
 
In this respect, there is no longer a situation where society will be distracted by drawing rosy pictures. In addition, it has been seen that the prices will not decrease with the order, and for this, a new direction should be given to the economy. Otherwise, as time passes, the problems will become gangrene, and it will become more difficult to find a solution. In conclusion, we can say that there is a need for a new structure that will provide humane living conditions for our own people, instead of seeing the fact that this corrupt order only serves domestic and global capital circles. The rest means nothing but talk.

YEREL HABERLER

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