Hopeless quake victims under Ma Ying-Jeou's lead

Two weeks ago I blogged about that Taipei City Ma Ying-Jeou can't solve the problem of a single building in 7 years (here). Today the survivors of Tong-Hsing Building, the only building of Taipei that collapsed in 921 earthquake 7 years ago, still see no hope that Ma is capable of giving them any help. According to this report,

Four years after 921 quake, Taipei City Government appropriated more than 400 million dollars (~ 1.3 million US dollars) for rebuilding (Tong-Hsing). The builder pocketed it and escaped by claiming bankruptcy. Public Works Departments of Taipei City Government (台北市政府工務局) then started over the whole process of building applications again. But then, again, the budget was put into private pocket by the new builder. In total more than 1 billion dollars went into private pocket of two builders, leaving no hope for the rebuild.
(4年後台北市政府撥款補助重建，先被營建商惡性倒閉捲款4億多元逃跑，工務局重新審核，新營建公司又爆出跳票數億元停工，兩次東星大樓被包商A走近10億元公帑，新家卻遙遙無期)

Read the lines carefully -- it took Ma Ying-Jeou's government 4 years to appropriate the fund for rebuilding. At the year Ma appropriated that fund, Taipei County Government, run by Su Chen-Chang (蘇貞昌), had already finished the rebuild of a collapsed building that was down in 921 too (see my previous post).

And when the fund was finally appropriated, it went into private pocket, repeatedly. It surprises me why Taipei citizens can tolerate such a corruption and still think that Ma is capable of running for president. Do they even care to ask Ma, "Is there something called LAW in Taipei?"

It seems to me that to be a Taipei Citizen, you'd better hope that nothing bad happens to you. If it does, you are on your own.