Sunday, July 4, 2021

Letter to editor from former DPP supporter

"Gradually I feel that what we chose with all our strength is despair."

Letter to editor

I am young. I still remember that during the general election, my colleagues and classmates were crazy about "111 go home to vote", all kinds of pictures, headers, articles... Even the always lazy I went back home to vote, When the president Tsai was elected with 8.17 million votes, how many people were so much moved. Now, we just want to die.

Dear President Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party, do you know how many young people who vote for you, fall out with their families, have a big quarrel, quarrel with each other and threaten to stay away from their families forever, we are doing our best for you. In exchange for four years in power, what you have returned to us is infinite despair.

At the beginning of the COVID outbreak, we should guard and listen to what we should listen to. Minister Chen chi-zhong who should be loved, we also love; many people say that you've guarded for a year and it is already very good. Don’t catch war criminals and encourage abuse.

Excuse me, haven't we been obedient for a year? Excuse me, who will encourage us?

We obediently wore masks for a year, carried the sedan chair for you, helped you publicize various policy slogans, and praised you for a year. What happened? The government's response to us is 3+11. When the international community is persuading the people to get the vaccine, our government is busy catching someone who sneaks the vaccine.

The epidemic is much more serious than last year, but your seemingly considerate rent subsidies, single subsidies, and bailout 4.0 are all kinds of things that seem to be helpful to us. As a result, President Tsai Ing-wen, can you not know it? You can't help but know that the company will definitely help employees to protect their employees, right? You can't help but know that many of those who meet the conditions of bailout 4.0 and can receive subsidies are basically business owners, right?

The money is not simply taken, before we starve to death, what will it take to trust you?

Those of us who had many hopes to send you to the ruling platform were sent to the gallows by you, the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of Labor.

Who can be rescued? I don’t know, I only know that no one around me can get it, but everyone is unemployed, either by the company’s salary cut or forced to suspend work. We were 100,000 miles away from home and came to Taipei to rent a house. We must receive the salary first. Deduct half, do you think there is a rent subsidy? Dear President Tsai Ing-wen, there are a bunch of conditions and restrictions on the rent subsidy. Immediate blood relatives cannot have a house, and no one of yours can have a house. You must be poor to get the help money...

My parents have a house in the south, but that doesn’t mean I have the money to rent a house in Taipei.

Dear President Tsai Ing-wen and Dean Su Zhenchang, I respect you very much, but I also want to say. If you really don't want to give money to those who need it, then don't give it. What kind of bailout 4.0 is really unnecessary. Do you know the sense of despair? You don’t know, because no matter how serious the epidemic is, no matter how you get scolded, there are still hundreds of thousands to receive every month, and you can still return to the comfort of your home and lie on the sofa every day, instead of simply renting an apartment.

Next is the vaccine, get the vaccine at your own expense?

Why do we pay taxes and let the country buy vaccines, but we "need" to spend more money to fight for them? Why is it that we have been crying out to buy a vaccine for more than a year, but the vaccine is still not enough now?

Why is there so much weight in the United States that one person can get a shot even in Costco, so many good things are being hit, and we are going to break the head for those "residues"? Who is still arrested for sneak shots of vaccines?

Sorry, we are talking about ordinary people, not including those high-ranking officials.

The senior officials are fully vaccinated. We can only make appointments for the residual doses. Are we inferior citizens? Is Taiwan a developing country?
Dear President Tsai Ing-wen, labor is not the softest part of your heart. Rich business owners are, and the high-ranking officials are.

I am sad that we have worked so hard, thinking that we have participated in politics with enthusiasm, and that we have changed Taiwan, but it has brought us despair.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

What is troubling about falling population?



Around the world, capitalists consider only growth to be good. But world resources are strained. We should be celebrating degrowth. Bigger is not automatically better.

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Step by step video evidence -- how DPP rigged January 2020 election

What is the solution to road traffic?

People are frustrated by difficult road vehicle traffic problems. What is the solution? Individual motorized transport has been around for 100 years. Still, it is a mess. The more build-out solutions that are tried, the worse it gets.

Here is another way to go: make urban buses fare-free. Then add buses as required by demand. This will make gradual change away from individual motorized travel.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Taiwan's effective response to Corona Virus

Some might say that because Taiwan is such a small country — about 19 times smaller than Texas — it is easier to mobilize during emergencies. Yet Taiwan is particularly challenged by its proximity to China and the fact that 850,000 of its citizens reside on the mainland; another 400,000 work there. Taiwan had 2.71 million visitors from China last year.
https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/news/how-taiwan-used-big-data-transparency-central-command-protect-its-people-coronavirus

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Major US City chooses free public transportation

Lawmakers in Kansas City, Missouri took a "visionary step" on Thursday by unanimously voting to make public transportation in the city free of charge, setting the stage for it to be the first major U.S. city to have free public transit.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/07/kansas-city-missouri-approves-free-public-transit-for-all_partner/ 

Monday, October 7, 2019

Sunday, September 22, 2019

如果日本無法獲得燃料,台灣可以嗎?

Sunday, August 4, 2019

減少花在汽油上的錢

台灣應該擔心能源供應,而不是向美國提供更多的軍事武器。
城市公交車應該是免費的。 台灣應停止出口汽油。

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

浪費錢

美国国防部星期一说,美国国务院已批准可能向台湾出售M1A2T艾布拉姆斯主战坦克、毒刺式导弹及相关设备的方案。这笔军售案估计价值为22亿美元。
https://www.voachinese.com/a/us-taiwan-arms-tanks-20190709/4992231.html

22億美元可以為台灣做些什麼?
比挑起戰爭更好的事情要做.

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A list of advantages of making urban buses fare-free



A list of advantages:

•   Dramatic reduction, or end, of traffic congestion.

•   Substantial reduction in traffic related pollution levels and greenhouse gas emissions.

•   Substantial reduction in road accidents, deaths and injuries.

•   Huge reduction in health costs related to traffic congestion and pollution: respiratory conditions, hospital admissions due to road accidents, stress related illnesses etc

•   Cut noise pollution

·      Reduction in polluted run-off water from roads into waterways & harbours

•   Reduction in ‘road rage’ incidents

•   Big reduction in fuel usage, waste and costs

•   Reduction in insurance claims and costs.

•   The finances and mobility of low-income people will be greatly improved, giving greater access to jobs, health facilities etc by removing cost constraints and coupled with better services.

·      Enhanced accessibility and increased frequency of services will benefit disabled citizens.

•   Reduce the number of school children currently being dropped off and picked up at school gates by car.

•   Greatly reduced costs in road maintenance due to less wear and tear.

•   Businesses able to cut their fleets of cars and thereby substantially reduce costs.

•   Inner city building owners & developers will not need to assign so much valuable space to car parking

•   Taxi services may be required less - surplus taxi drivers can be offered jobs as bus and tram operators or rail or ferry staff.

•   A big reduction in the massive amount of time and productivity potential lost stuck in traffic each day. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/gridlocked-aucklanders-spend-20-extra-working-days-year-stuck-in-traffic-study

•   Increased health and fitness with encouragement and confidence due to safer walking & cycling opportunities.

•   End assaults on bus drivers who will no longer carry cash boxes.

•   Faster boarding times and an end to constant delays as passengers one-by-one fumble for change or cards or ID, ask directions and receive tickets etc.

·      End the constant diversion and stress for drivers over ticket sales and monitoring ‘fare dodging’.

•   Emergency vehicles will be able to get through without traffic congestion problems.

•   The increased number of buses & trains will be available to be quickly seconded to rapidly evacuate large numbers of the population in event of an major earthquake or other civil emergency and reduce the likelihood of impassable chaos experienced in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina and Rita floods, where all interstate highways were clogged in total gridlock for 24 hours, resulting in almost as many deaths as the hurricanes inflicted.

•   Abolish expensive ticketing and fare handling systems – fares only comprise a modest percentage of current income for public transport but impose an enormous (unnecessary) cost.

•   End all problems of ‘fare dodging’ and ‘over-riding’ and disputes over fares. No need for teams of ticket inspectors & punitive measures.

·      Bus & tram operators can focus on safe driving without being concerned with fare collecting and protecting a cash box.

•   Public ownership & control will reinforce PT as a vital civic service focused solely on the mobility needs of the public.

•   As the city becomes far more user-friendly, socially interactive, mobile and genuinely ‘liveable’ – rates are likely to fall.

•   The new innovative free transit system is likely to become a major tourist draw-card – think of Melbourne and its popular trams. Tallinn promotes it’s green ‘fare-free capital of Europe’ as a unique and successful tourist attraction.

•   Auckland could become a world-leading ‘clean-green liveable city’ renowned for transforming chronic traffic chaos into sensible urban mobility.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

守護台灣最後500隻石虎的棲地

因裕隆公司提出申請,三義二廠開發案的環評程序目前暫緩中;但裕隆尚未放棄開發這片森林。希望各位朋友能持續關心,同時幫忙分享給親朋好友,讓更多人一起關注石虎保育。當本案或石虎保育有其他重要發展時,我們會透過email向各位報告,屆時也請大家繼續為石虎挺身而出喔!

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/ct/tw_leopardcat_yulon/?

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Increasing efficiency makes things worse, not better, for #climate

...Taking this global perspective with respect to the economy, efficiency gains will do the exact opposite of what efficiency policy advocates claim it will do. If technological changes allow global energy productivity or energy efficiency to increase, then civilization will grow faster into the resources that sustain it. This grows the economy, but it also means that energy consumption and CO2 emissions accelerate.

CO2 emissions can be stabilized despite efficiency gains. But this is possible only if decarbonization occurs as quickly as energy consumption grows. At today’s consumption growth rates, this would require roughly one new nuclear power plant, or equivalent in renewables, to be deployed each day.
http://nephologue.blogspot.com/2018/09/is-increasing-energy-efficiency-driving.html

Sunday, March 17, 2019

10,000 in Okinawa rally to oppose US military base

Monday, March 11, 2019

Racist sex tourist gets a beating

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

On Feb 28, 1947, the US-backed ROC massacred 20 or 30 thousand Taiwan people

The 228 Incident/Massacre, (二二八事件), is an event in Taiwan’s history that is not commonly known; the exact number of victims remain a mystery other than that tens of thousands suffered. What is known is that it was a conflict between the incoming ROC government and the inhabitants of Taiwan. Although many have heard of the bloody incident in recent years, it remains controversial. Click here for a basic overview of the entire incident. Here are 10 facts that you should know about 228: