台灣奇蹟 ---- Ma the bumbler - 趣味新聞網

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Taiwan politics
Ma the bumbler
A former heart-throb loses his shine

Nov 17th 2012 | TAIPEI | from the print edition

WHEN he was first elected in 2008, Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, offered Taiwanese high hopes that the island’s economy would open a new chapter. He promised ground-breaking agreements with China to help end Taiwan’s growing economic marginalisation. At the time, Mr Ma’s image was of a clean technocrat able to rise above the cronyism and infighting of his party, the Kuomintang (KMT). He was a welcome contrast to his fiery and pro-independence predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, now in jail for corruption.

Five years on, and despite being handily re-elected ten months ago, much has changed. In particular, popular satisfaction with Mr Ma has plummeted, to a record low of 13%, according to the TVBS Poll Centre. The country appears to agree on one thing: Mr Ma is an ineffectual bumbler.

Ordinary people do not find their livelihoods improving. Salaries have stagnated for a decade. The most visible impact of more open ties with China, which include a free-trade agreement, has been property speculation in anticipation of a flood of mainland money. Housing in former working-class areas on the edge of Taipei, the capital, now costs up to 40 times the average annual wage of $15,400. The number of families below the poverty line has leapt. Labour activists have taken to pelting the presidential office with eggs.
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Exports account for 70% of GDP. So some of Taiwan’s problems are down to the dismal state of rich-world economies. Yet Mr Ma’s leadership is also to blame. He has failed to paint a more hopeful future, with sometimes hard measures needed now. Worse, he frequently tweaks policies in response to opposition or media criticism. It suggests indecisiveness.

Public anger first arose in June, when Mr Ma raised the price of government-subsidised electricity. Few Taiwanese understood why, even though Taiwan’s state-owned power company loses billions. In the face of public outrage, Mr Ma postponed a second round of electricity price rises scheduled for December. They will now take place later next year.

People are also worried that a national pension scheme is on course for bankruptcy in less than two decades. Yet Mr Ma cannot bring himself to raise premiums sharply, because of the temporary unpopularity it risks. When Mr Ma does try to appeal to Taiwanese who make up the island’s broad political centre, it often backfires with his party’s core supporters. Following public grumbles that retired civil servants, teachers and ex-servicemen were a privileged group, the cabinet announced plans to cut more than $300m in year-end bonuses, affecting around 381,000. The trouble was, veterans are among the KMT’s most fervent backers. Now some threaten to take to the streets in protest and deprive the KMT of their votes until the plan is scrapped. Meanwhile, Mr Ma’s clean image has been sullied by the indictment of the cabinet secretary-general for graft.

Cracks are starting to grow in the KMT façade. Recently Sean Lien, a prominent politician, criticised Mr Ma’s economic policies, saying that any politician in office during this time of sluggish growth was at best a “master of a beggar clan”—implying a country of paupers.

But the next election is four years away, and presidential hopefuls will not try to oust or even outshine Mr Ma anytime soon. After all, they will not want to take responsibility for the country’s economic problems. Nothing suggests Mr Ma’s main policies will change (or that they should), but his credibility is draining by the day.



經濟學人》批評馬笨蛋（Ma the bumbler）；府：檢討改進。

中評社台北11月17 日記者倪鴻祥報導；

總統府發言人範薑泰基 錶示，有關外界批評馬政府施政無能(失能、無效)，執政團隊持續檢討、積極改進、全力以赴，希望能早日帶領台灣走齣低榖。（中評社　倪鴻祥攝）

最新齣刊的《經濟學人》亞洲版刊登一篇標題為「馬是笨蛋」（Ma the bumbler）的文章批評馬英九已失去光芒。總統府發言人範薑泰基16日晚間臨時召開記者會錶示，這段時間內外政治經濟環境都齣現大變化，台灣經濟環境現在麵臨考驗、社會氣氛也不好，執政團隊都持續檢討、積極改進、全力以赴，希望能早日帶領台灣走齣低榖。

範薑泰基16日晚間臨時召開記者會，邀請民進黨主席蘇貞昌及前主席蔡英文與馬英九進行國政諮詢會談，另外也針對《經濟學人》亞洲版的報道作齣迴應。他指齣，盡管目前台灣經濟景氣不佳，許多指標也顯露齣政府的努力已有初步成績，例如今年9月份台灣的景氣燈號轉為黃藍燈、今年1到9月的外資增加17.41%、大陸投資增加298.13%。

他指齣，許多國際評比也顯示台灣並未喪失競爭優勢，今年 「美國商業環境風險評估公司」（BERI）將台灣投資環境評為全球第4；財經雜誌《富比士》（Forbes）公布的2012「最適經商國傢」排行榜，台灣被列為全球第16名，較去年進步10名，在亞洲地區則排名第3，超越日本及韓國。

範薑泰基說，雖然內部大環境尚未完全復甦，但麵對國際上客觀的正麵訊息，也該就事論事，不必妄自菲薄；馬英九對於目前成果也仍不滿意，執政團隊會上緊發條、全速前進，也 希望全民能秉持信心和政府一起突破睏境 。


你對總統府發言人講的話，引用的數據相信嗎？？

怎麼--經濟學人說馬笨不好，總統府馬上反應，自己卻一直引用國際上其他月刊數據---說自己錶現很好？？？




駁「笨蛋」說 馬：經濟已緩慢復甦
中時電子報作者： 王正寜、馮惠宜、瀋婉玉╱綜閤報導 | 中時電子報 – 2012年11月18日 上午5:30

【王正寜、馮惠宜、瀋婉玉╱綜閤報導】

被知名的英國《經濟學人》雜誌評論為「笨蛋」（bumbler），馬英九總統昨天引用經濟數字反駁；他說，過去幾個月來，台灣經濟情況確實不太好，但從九月份開始有緩慢復甦跡象， 國際評比錶現也不差 ；此外，在物價指數方麵，比起韓國、新加坡及香港成長都較為緩慢，這個成果得來不易。

對於經濟學人雜誌嚴詞批評馬英九，與會的內政部長李鴻源、財政部長張盛和受訪時錶示，隻怪總統一個人不公平，所有的行政團隊都要有所警惕，好好努力。

身兼國民黨主席的馬英九，昨天上午在台中與黨代錶座談，下午又齣席「新北市、宜蘭縣黨代錶座談會」。 麵對媒體詢問經濟學人相關的問題始終微笑以對，不願正麵迴應 ；但在與基層黨代錶座談時，則特彆針對經濟情勢提齣說明。

馬英九指齣 ， 九月份齣口成長七.四％，外資投資成長十七.四％，經濟指標亦由藍燈轉為黃藍燈；此外，馬英九錶示， 台灣在全球投資環境中排名第四 、 在世界銀行的經商自由度排名則從二○○七年的第六十一名進步到今年的第十六名 、 在全球最佳商業國傢中也居第十六名 ， 超越日本、韓國等國傢 ，未來政府要持續努力，進一步提升台灣的優勢。

至於消費者物價指數，馬英九錶示，今年變動不會超過二％，前一陣子物價波動較大， 主要是因為天災而造成 蔬果價格成長的影響。

對於有黨代錶質疑台灣經濟是否過度依賴大陸，馬英九也錶示，政府努力不把所有雞蛋放在大陸這個籃子裏，但也不能忽略大陸這個市場。他說，對大陸齣口，在二○○○年隻占廿四％，到二○○八增加到四十％， 國民黨重新執政後，五年來沒有讓這個數字再增加 ，避免過度依賴大陸的情形發生。

基層關心的油電雙漲問題，馬英九重申，政府是朝著油、電價「市場化、製度化」的方嚮改革，不能用全民繳的稅金來補貼用油、電較多的人，因為這是不公平的。他強調，油、電價格應由市場經濟來決定，而非由政治人物來決定。

馬英九也坦承近半年推動包括油電價格調整等改革時，規畫不夠周延，溝通不盡充分，因此付齣極大政治代價，未來會加以調整。對於近來施政屢屢引發民眾抨擊，馬英九則錶示，不應陷入有感、無感的陷阱，因為不是每項政策都能讓每個人有感， 所謂有感、無感是非常主觀 ，他也以實施高中職齊一學費為例說，很多學生都沒有感覺， 因為學費都不是他們在繳 ，但他強調，對的事就要堅持，國傢纔會進步。


我要哭瞭，12年國教，學費我有替孩子繳交，繳到欲哭無淚。
補習班的費用又加重瞭，以前補3科，現在還要補纔藝(？？科)，每月多1萬多元。
小孩因為12年國教更纍，傢長支齣更多。
馬笨，還引以為傲？？？？
真是，人不知恥，連鬼都怕。

每次有任何過錯都要把前朝、陳水扁----抓齣來比較一番。
因為錢潮爛，所以馬笨作不好，作的濫，都是前朝、陳水扁的錯。
因為你們錯，害我錯，所以都是你們錯。

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