When no laughter is heard in children’s public playgrounds

When no laughter is heard in children’s public playgrounds

On January 13, 2018, Tsai Ing-wen was in the Chung Hsing New Village in Nantou where she addressed a crowd of several hundred supporters for 13 minutes.  A police force of 1,000 strong was mobilized and deployed, and the entire “village” was surrounded by barbed wire barricades.  A policeman said the mobilization and deployment of 1,000 police just for an appearance of 13 minutes were a waste of police manpower.  The entire village surrounded by barbed wire barricades was under a tense lock down and there was a strong feeling of a “jin zhang su sha qi fen”.

“Jin zhang su sha qi fen” means an “tense atmosphere of pure killing”.

No children’s laughter could be heard in the public children’s playground, the media reported.

Attendees went through four security gates, passing through personal security check points, barbed wire fences, a human wall of police, and a second security check point entrance.  The people felt humiliated and angry.

“Mu ma tu cheng kung huang zhen”

“Mu ma” is a “wooden horse”.  “Mu ma tu cheng” specifically refers to a “Trojan horse”.  “Kung huang zhen” means “sickness of fear” or “a disease of fearfulness”.

Comments say:  “Xiao Ing’s name (Tsai Ing-wen’s name) is incompetence!”  “Those who support Tsai Ing-wen support incompetent government.  Those who support Tsai Ing-wen support government dictatorship.  Those who support Tsai Ing-wen support social division and divisiveness.  Those who support Tsai Ing-wen support harming the military, the public servants, the teachers, the laborers, and all the people of Taiwan!”

The drama of power struggle carried out by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) shows that the DPP will mercilessly sacrifice anybody to win elections.  It makes one realize the cruelty of politics, the evil nature of struggle for power, and the banality of immoral human nature.  Do Taiwan’s democratic elections reveal the positive values of democracy or the negative destructiveness of democracy?

Tsai Ing-wen indulges in self gratification and a false sense of personal well-being.  She underestimates the impact of low wages on social stability.  She uses erroneous ways of thinking and methods to solve the low wage problem.  She neglects the rising “tide of political awareness of youths” 18-25 years old who cannot find work and whose income is not enough to survive on.  They will rise up to demand change and reforms.  In 2016, the Kuomintang government of Ma Ying-jeou was toppled by the March 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, and they will topple the incompetent government of Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progress Party.  The future of the Tsai Ing-wen government will only become worse and more dire.

Tsai Ing-wen and her government have completely sacrificed the workers’ rights and benefits by brutish political force and by political cons and political fraud and lies used by criminal fraud rings.  Tsai Ing-wen has betrayed the trust and the loyal support of Taiwan’s 9 million workers, and has trampled on workers’ rights and benefits without remorse and regret and apology.  She is unable to provide an economic way out for the people.

According to the spokesman for Tsai Ing-wen and the government of her Democratic Progressive Party, “Taiwan does not have any deaths from overwork”.  A Taiwanese scholar named Lee Chia-tung lamented that he personally knows a Taiwanese engineer who works so much overtime that his own children do not even recognize him as their father.  “This is a sign of a backward nation”, the professor said on January 12, 2018.

Contrary to what the government spokesman says, there have been several recent reports of a Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) engineer who died from fatigue after working straight for 16 hours, a tour bus driver who died after driving for 16 hours straight, and other deaths attributed to overwork and extreme fatigue.  They all died from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular infarct.

A January 12-15, 2018, survey of 1,407 responses asking whether a public referendum should be held to overturn the new revisions of the basic labor law shows 1,237 support overturning the new revisions and 170 oppose.

The new revisions of the basic labor law passed in legislature after its third reading on January 10, 2018.  The revisions passed “automatically” after 18 hours of a marathon session through the afternoon and night of January 9 to January 10, 2018, while most legislators slept through the entire session in the legislative assembly hall.

On January 11, 2018, the New Power Party and the Social Democratic Party presented a joint proposal to hold a referendum to withdraw the basic labor law and rewrite it and they have launched a signature drive for the referendum to be held with the 2018 year-end local elections.

The pretty female convener of the Social Democratic Party Fan Yun said:  “The time has come.  We need not be tolerant anymore.  We need not wait any longer.  We must take action to change our own life.”

The people are now awakening to the fact that Tsai Ing-wen who says that the laborers are the softest spot in my heart”  is exactly the one who is killing the workers’ future and making the laborers overwork.

Workers say earning a monthly minimum wage of NT$30,000 is possible, but to Tsai Ing-wen, “a monthly minimum wage of NT$30,000 is my dream”.

Tsai Ing-wen governs with her dreams and she is “hollowing out” Taiwan.

It is not difficult to see what a “hollowed out” Taiwan looks like.  The president’s office building, the Legislature, and everywhere Tsai Ing-wen appears, there are barbed wire fences and razor barb wire barricades blocking out traffic and pedestrians.

And no laughter is heard in public children’s playgrounds!