One of the recent news was about some buildings of 4 families in ML county. The county government said that the existence of those buildings could endanger the intersection of traffic, especially when there are trucks trying to make a turn. Those families didn't come to any agreement with the government. They didn't move and the government gave them the ultimatum. When the time comes, the county peops will take down the buildings at all costs. The time came this morning when lots of them gathered a protest in front of the office of the president in Taipei. The county government grouped an army of policemen in front of their unattended houses, and took down their years of lives. Many of them didn't even have any chance to see their houses one last time.
Other than the sneaky move, the county government spent millions of New Taiwan Dollars posting half a page advertisement in order to "educate" people that they are doing the right thing. The righteousness claimed that the existence of the house may become the blind spot for cars and huge trucks while making turns. Before pointing fingers to anyone, my questions are, "did the families settle there first", "how long have them being there", "what happened to the previous county government if these houses really endanger the traffic"?
These people must have bought their houses which were approved by the county government years or decades ago. Later, their county government also approved many other buildings to construct your current traffic lines. After the later ones were built, this county government came back to you and said that your building now is a threat to the current traffic flow. Something must have gone extremely wrong somewhere. Perhaps the local development plan came a lot later than the time these families purchased/built their buildings. If so, what stopped the government taking care of these 4 families as well? Or perhaps these buildings had been illegal all along(or, never in the development plan), and the filthy middle connections had been taking money from the residents to smooth the county government for all these years. I don't know the answers but I find this really scary. Trust is the base of any relationship. What happens when we can't trust our government?
This is the time we live in. Our government would rather waste millions(NTD) of tax payers' money to post half a page of advertisement through several medias just to tell that they were not wrong, instead of giving their millions to these families for their new settlement or for just simply some compensation. You can purchase the government approved construction now, but if you are so lucky that one day you may find your legal home endangering the later development. Our government set a minimum college graduate monthly wage at 700 USD(more or less). This makes corporate's heaven. They used to pay over 1000 USD for a college graduate, and now, nobody is paying that anymore. Until now, we still don't get any higher.
Many of the Taiwanese politicians have the options of immigrating to other countries. When the end of someone's 2nd presidency comes, we see the ugliest and the least responsible acts throughout. It looks like people just stop working hard when they know that there is no further goal. If these previous presidents, or soon to be previous presidents decide to own a different citizenship, can we stop their retirement paychecks?
