What are the worst problems facing Taiwan internally?
Cheng Pang-chen: There are several. The first one is an unfair social welfare policy that has been lavishing too much care on government employees, servicemen, veterans, and teachers at other people’s expense. Take housing loans. The bank is not about to make less money out of granting government employees low-interest mortgages. It makes up the difference by charging its other customers a higher rate. I’m not saying the government shouldn’t take care of these people, but it shouldn’t confine itself to specific groups. You can liken it to the four legs of a chair. Here, one leg is longer than the others. To make the chair stable, we have the choice of either adding something to the other three legs, or cutting this one shorter. When we don’t have the resources to lengthen the shorter legs, we have to trim the longer one. None of the other candidates wants to bring up this issue. Those government employees, teachers, servicemen and veterans, together with their families, add up to a cou
