I think my daughter was 3-4 years old.
One night we went to his uncle’s.
I don’t know why my daughter (Elif) got bored, saying “Look at your sister-in-law”, she took the plate of the coffee cup in front of me and put it on the ground.
Of course the plate was broken.
When I said, “You should pay for what you did by buying a cup set”, his uncle and aunt objected, saying, “He is a child, such things happen”, but this was something he did on purpose and there should be a reward.
He was entitled to a nut every day. If he was getting chocolate (Penguin) one day, he was getting chips the next day.
Sometimes he couldn’t decide, he would buy one first, and then when we came to the cash register, he would leave it and get the other one.
Anyway, we didn’t get any food for a week and we went and bought a set of cups, took it and gave it to her aunt with apology.
A few weeks passed, we went to Naciye Abla, Elif’s mother, who took care of Elif while we were at school, to pick up Elif after school.
Na said that our mother, Elif, tore the tablecloth with a small hole in it by inserting her finger.
Na apologized to her mother and said, “This time it will take longer to not buy food because the tablecloth is more expensive” and we took Elif and came home.
While we were preparing the table for dinner, Elif came to us with a bag in which she had put one of her slippers, a T-shirt, pajamas and a pair of panties and said, “I’m leaving you. I’m going to live with my mother now.”
Why did we say?
He said, “Whatever happens, you buy it with my money. You are now poor. I will pay my own fine with my own money.”
“Okay, this time we’ll pay, but if you’re irresponsible and hurt someone else, you’ll have to pay for it,” and we smoothed it out.
Now I’m thinking, how is this government different from 3-4 year old Elif?
There’s a difference, even at that age, Elif accepted that irresponsibility was the price and she never intentionally harmed anyone again, but this government is still trying to make us pay for her irresponsibility.
If we are going to build schools, hospitals, pay for education and health.
It was flood, earthquake, fire, if we are to heal the wounds of natural disasters,
Excuse me, why do we pay you those salaries as prime ministers and ministers?
Izaz, why are we paying your catering money, travels, travels, election expenses, your manager, your undersecretary, your paper, your pen for nothing?
After all, all we want you to do is organize things, making the payments, with our taxes.
If you do not use our taxes properly, and even if you are burdening us with the debt of those who have to pay the heaviest tax, the electricity-water debts of hotels and government offices, what do you have to do with us?
If we are going to do everything ourselves, why are we feeding you for nothing?
It’s not enough that you don’t do business, you are also blocking the future of the country by exploiting the flag and nation.
Not only are you closing it, you are giving away all the natural assets of the country for the sake of your seat.
Then why are you here?
If it were not for you, with the salary we paid to you, the manager, the undersecretary and all your appointees, even to your advisors that you sit vacantly,
With the additional taxes you impose on us instead of the taxes you cannot collect,
We can support this country, another country, not with the electricity and water money we will pay instead of the hotels with sparkling water and sparkling water in the garden, the election expenses you spend from our taxes, the ones we lost in the illegal working life you overlook, the education and health expenses we share with the uncontrolled population.
Then why are you here??
I no longer have a penny to be deducted from my salary and given to irresponsible spending.
I cannot support myself and you with the cost of living you have created.
That’s why, for whatever reason, I don’t have the consent or permission to deduct a penny from my salary…
