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Monday, 21 December 2009

DPP Chair Tsai Ing Wen 蔡英文 Highlights Unemployment 12.18.09

Transcription (I'm trying my best):

" Our society is already in a state of high unemployment,

the ECFA, or to speed towards pulling the cross-strait economic relationship with China closer, will increase our unemployment pressures.

(0:32) So this problem is very simple, it is unemployment, unemployment, and unemployment.

A job's importance includes a social value, the lack of a job hinders each person's self esteem.

In the 80s, when I [Tsai Ing Wen] was studying in England, England was in a state of economic hardship and unemployment was a problem, and it reflected in society.

I did not think that 20 years later, in Taiwan, we would still have to feel the weight that unemployment places on a society.

We must have our government respond, thinking thoroughly.

They are the people with jobs now, perhaps it is difficult now for them to understand the unemployed and their feelings concerning "where will my next job be?", or those who are working but wondering "how long can I keep my job?".

This is a question that the population is keeping in their thoughts.

However, it seems our government is not willing to understand the people's hardships and take actions for the people; the government is working only to placate the people concerning their daily troubles.

The government is passing off the ECFA as harmless, even daring to tell us that employment WILL increase if we do not sign it, that we must sign, and the sooner the better.

Without proper discussion, providing any necessary information, and headed on a one-way path, nothing is explained, communicated,

there is only China's circles; and this kind of brainwashing creates discontent within a democratic society (3:00) ".

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