'Suspended bread' for those who are in need

After collecting money from the public by publishing an IBAN number after the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has now launched a suspended bread campaign after sinking the economy.

The task of governments is not to launch solidarity campaigns when poverty and unemployment become unbearable. The people are already in solidarity. One of the most important tasks of governments in our country to date is the distribution of public resources. All powers try to distribute these resources to their supporters (and therefore those in power) as much as possible. But this too has a limit or a measure. While they transfer most of the resources to themselves, they transfer some of them to SMEs, tradesmen and so on so that the nation does not rebel.

Everyone is in agreement that the current government is the most reckless in handing out public resources to its advocators. The giant hospitals, bridges, roads and airports are built to transfer money to its supporters. If the money paid for the bridges that were not crossed, the money paid to the supporters for the sick patients who were not cared for, the money paid to the supporters for the passengers who did not fly were transferred to the unemployed and impoverished people, at least they would earn more than the minimum wage.

There is also, of course, extravagancy by those who hold power. Palaces, flying palaces, office cars, bureaucrats' fancy curiosities, etc. If the money that goes from the budget to such waste every year were given to those who cannot even afford to buy bread, no one would be left without bread.

And of course, the economic policies in which people are left in need of bread should be talked about. Unemployment grows like an avalanche when the money is transferred to consumption to be transferred to the supporters instead of production, and the existing factories are flogged off to the supporters and closed again under the name of privatization. They closed factories and built luxury residences on their plots.

Remember there was a (public owned) Sümerbank textile factory between Zeytinburnu and Bakırköy (districs in Istanbul)? In the months before the closure, the headlines were about the resistance of the workers. They laid their eyes on this vast land by the sea. They insisted on closing the factory. First, they said it was not the state's job to produce diapers or sew pyjamas… They swore that they would not build luxury residences on the factory land. But, as always, they did not keep their oath. Now there are residences where their newly enriched proponents live.

Izmit Paper Factory, sugar factories, ports, etc. they were all closed like that. During their rule, they did not open as many factories as they closed. Now they are running a 'suspended bread' campaign for people who cannot even afford bread anymore.

Suspending bread is not like suspending the Constitution.

One day the people will say enough is enough.