ray245 wrote:
On the other hand, the DPP cannot even offer anything concrete for the economy, other than saying it will improve business for the farming industry.
I mean come on, the DPP has squandered a chance to booast the economy and have trade ties with china that can actually expect massive payment.
Hell, if the KMT offered any other canidate beside Ma, I think it is reasonable to say the DPP will maintain power. And after eight years of sqaundering the economy of taiwan, I don't think the DPP can manage the current economic trouble well.
DPP might have bad economic policies, but without reliance on China, Taiwan would not drop as rapid as the current state. Also the DPP would at least have responsible officials instead of care-free ones such as the current cabinet.
A good example to compare is the recent incident during the Sinlaku Typhoon. A bridge broke and 6 people were killed when it happened. It was in critical condition but no one set up roadblocks during the typhoon. The report on the reason for the accident cited "natural disasters". One executive official was punished but no policy maker held himself responsible.
In comparison, Chen's Minister of Transportion resigned after the Ba-Zhang River incident where some people were stuck in a sand bar and no one came to rescue due to "regulations", which resulted in their deaths.
The rise of Ma has its trends of him being kind of like the "savior" for the KMT. He looks good, he's hypocritical but he hides it well, he takes no responsibility, and the pan-Blue media (which dominates the Taiwanese media) blows his dick while they take every chance to assrape the Greens.
Ya sure, Ma did promise to fix the economy, and failed to make any major change to the economy. I mean come on, you think that the only other canidate, Frank Hsieh is able to fix the economy?
As above.
Come on, his only platform during the race was saying Ma should not bet everything on china, yet at the same time, Frank did not offer any other alternative solution.
Actually,
Frank is more moderate on Strait issues. The worst or best we could get from the China bubble is a slower pace of the current crisis.
And Taiwan in regards to political scandals, Taiwan do have too many scandals going on, one after another. In the end, what happened was people start to treat politicans like celebrity. Until recently, the only politicans in both parties are concerned with is finding more scandals, and the side who has more scandals will lose the elections.
And who started this craze? The Blues of course, because they could not admit and get over their defeat on 2 presidential elections, so they start appealing the population to attack shit in which they've been doing in the past. And the pan-Blue media fan the fires as well (heck, the Blue political talk shows such as 2100 are
still focusing on the scandals while we're drinking melamine milk).
Scandal muckraking used to stay on politician level with the people merely complaining or providing info. Now it's a national sport.
And in the current sistuation in Taiwan right now, no one seems to be able to fix the economy. The only major change a party is able to push is closer ties with china and nothing else. The opposition simply oppose closer ties with china and nothing else as well.
With a falling Chinese economy, dragged down reputation in export products (various nations are beginning to treat "Made in Taiwan" dairy related products as "Made in China"), dragged down personnel quality (with all due respect, Ma is going to recognize Chinese academic degrees and allowing them to take Taiwanese national exams), and other
healthy foreign investments getting scared off due to Ma's China policies, I fail to see how closer ties is going to help Taiwan.
At this rate, Taiwan might as well drag Chiang Ching-kuo from his grave and offer something more solid.
No he won't, because it was his cabinet that worked.
