What beautiful pennies we had

Are we going to drop a zero again so that we can get our pennies back? 

I guess nobody uses pennies anymore these days. 

The inflation monster has destroyed our pennies!

If we removed one zero from our currency today, 1 dollar would be at least 2 liras. It would not be so bad.

Then, how nice, we would start using our pennies again.

How many cents would bread be if we removed one zero?

How much is bread today? 

5? 6? How much is bread in your neighborhood?

Of course, I think these are the prices of public bread. As far as I know, there are public bread for 4 liras in some cities.

Trabzon bread is 10 liras, for example. 

Even 10 liras seems quite cheap for Trabzon bread to me. 

Maybe this price is also the price of public bread. Could Trabzon bread be sold as public bread in Trabzon?

Anyway, let's look at Istanbul.

When we drop one zero, 210 gram public bread in Istanbul becomes 50 kurus.

It is the same in Bursa, also 50 cents.

Trabzon bread will be 1 lira.

How beautiful!

Simit would also be 50 kurus.

The price of a bagel is really high.

When I was little, I think the price of a bagel was 25 kurus, I remember buying a bagel for 25 kurus. 

Today, it is not enough to drop one zero to buy a bagel at the prices of my childhood. We also need to halve the prices.

Can't prices be brought back with negative inflation without dropping a zero?

I have written before that this is sometimes a problem in Japan.

Yes, negative inflation is a problem for the economy. Didn't you know that?

Negative inflation also disrupts the country's economy.

For example, if you produce a good for 1 lira, the next day you cannot even sell it at the price you produced it for. 

You can only sell it at a loss, maybe at half the price.

Do you think it is possible to do such a trade?

Even better, you take a loan from the bank, then you give half of the money back to the bank and pay off your debt. Isn't that good?

Do you think that's possible?

Wouldn't that be nice?

So negative inflation is very harmful for the economy. 

Actually, it's not possible, but it happened in Japan once. 

If you can't keep a good price balance, you'll go bankrupt.

Do you think that at least removing zeros from the currency would be a solution to stop inflation?

Unfortunately, this does not help. 

In order to get rid of inflation, first of all, people need to get rid of this psychology of increasing prices in their minds.

The solution to this is a balanced economy. To be able to see ahead.

The remedy for a balanced economy is trust, as it is always said. 

People need to trust each other and most importantly the state.

They will trust the state so that they will pay their taxes on time. 

They will trust, but they will also trust when they see that someone else cannot earn money without labor.

They will trust, but they will also be able to earn money without any problems. 

Then they will willingly pay taxes on their earnings. 

But they will pay their taxes only if they are sure that the taxes they pay are not being given away.

Then they will make sure that those taxes are returned to them in the form of roads, water and electricity, so that they will not refrain from paying taxes.

The balance of the economy falls into place only when the state is able to collect taxes.

When the state is unable to collect taxes, if it starts to cover the cost of jobs or salaries it has to pay by printing money, then the state itself is pumping inflation.

And inflation, as I have written before, means that the state is stealing from the pockets of the citizens the fruits of their labor.

All this balance will fall into place, and then you can remove zeros from the currency if you want to, or not if the balance is already in place.

But more importantly, if the price of something is established in people's minds, it is much better not to touch the money at all. It is necessary not to cloud minds.

Unless, as once happened, there is no more room for zeros on the money. 

Then you are forced to erase the zeros.

Even this causes social trauma to remain for years.

After that, people still say million billion, they still say quadrillion, quadrillion.

As long as there is a balanced economy in the country. The important thing is to know how to keep the economy in balance.

You don't need to remove zeros from the currency.

This is the biggest mistake made today.

They have confused the price of everything in people's minds. 

People can no longer weigh in their minds how much something should be worth.

At least I remember the price of a bagel from when I was a little kid, and from there I can more or less figure out where we are today.

Do you know how much meat should normally cost?

The price of minced meat is 300 liras a kilo, maybe even more. Is that normal?

Yes, it is expensive, but how expensive do you think it is? 

Do you know how much it should really be? Can you weigh it? 

Can you compare the price of minced meat today?

A kilo of minced meat should be worth three kilos of oranges! Do you have a similar scale in your mind?

A friend of mine told me yesterday that luxury hotels cost 5000 liras a night, I said what's the big deal! 

I said luxury hotels were already between 300 and 500 dollars a night, even in Russia they are at these prices.

But I am a civil servant, he told me.

This is where the problem is. 

Now it is not even possible for a civil servant or a laborer to go anywhere near such things with such prices. They cannot even see their dreams.

In terms of purchasing power, civil servant salaries have remained so low that people are really puzzled about what to do.

Do you have in mind how many kilos of meat should be bought with a civil servant's salary, for example, do you have such a scale?

When I was young, I used to pay my rent with one third of my young engineer salary. Okay, I lived in a below-average place like Yüzüncü Yıl in Ankara, but the rent was equivalent to one third of my salary.

Do you think a young engineer today can pay his rent with one third of his salary?

When I say engineer salary, I mean project engineer salary, it wasn't that high.

Some months I would have to spend the coins from the change box at the entrance of the door to buy bread at the end of the month.

So maybe I could only get a minimum wage salary at that time.

After I came to Russia to work on a construction site, I was able to get back on my feet a little bit.

Do you have such comparisons in your mind today?

But look, back then I lived on my own and there was never a shortage of meat in the house and not much else. I cooked almost every kind of food you know.

Moreover, sometimes I would eat kebabs instead of the lunch that the lunch voucher from the workplace could buy. 

On weekends, I would also go to the movies or to the bar in Cinnah to listen to Naşide.

I would like to say that today, when I say that this government has put the people in a difficult situation, I think it has actually ruined the country economically.

As our uncle said at the AK Party rally, it is no longer so easy for citizens to even feed themselves with a loaf of dry bread. 

Even if you just buy a loaf of bread for every meal, it costs more than 500 liras today. And that's if you buy it from public bread. 

If you try to buy bread from a normal bakery, who knows how much it will cost.

So we come back to the same subject.

The pot can't boil without boiling!

They have destabilized the economy, and unfortunately they do not know how to recover it.

The cadres who know how to do this, who are likely to recover it, do not trust them anymore. 

In order to pay their respects, they come to the rally area, even if they are forced to do so, and take a photo with Mr. Erdoğan, but despite their insistence, they do not say yes.

Enough is enough, don't force them, Mr. Erdoğan! 

Let those who know better take over so that this country can recover as soon as possible.

The opposition's job is already not easy.

The economy is broken. 

More precisely, morality is broken.

But at least the opposition knows how to fix it. Look, your theory has officially collapsed, and with it the country.

O citizens who voted for the government! 

Don't be afraid, nothing will happen to your gains, no one can force this country to do anything from now on. 

Nobody has any intention to force anything.

People want peace, nothing else. 

Everyone is fed up with this tension.

What more can I say? There is nothing more to say.

Young people, at least vote with your minds so that we can build a beautiful future together. 

Look, even Mr. İnce has finally found the truth. 

It's a little late, but as they say, better late than never. 

He says he is doing this for my hometown, and one might ask where were you thinking until now, but anyway, now is not the time to question that. Let's hope for the best. 

It is up to your votes to bring this beautiful country back on track without further breaking our hopes with the government's actions. Let's make an effort.

Look at those who have reached a certain age, they say they are eating dry bread, but they still dance around the rally field chanting "ak, ak, ak". They are in a different mood, most of them do not seem to be easily convinced.

I wish the elections to be good for the country.

Love and regards to everyone from Moscow