英文 English 
President under fire after saying he’s not aware of widespread feelings of malaise (2015/03/20)

Taiwanese workers stuck at the same real salaries as 16 years ago often express feelings of stagnation and no way forward. But President Ma Ying-jeou denied that such sentiments are common. Critics are now calling him out of touch.

President Ma attended a Fulbright Conference on Thursday, where a foreign student asked why some citizens felt stagnation or no way forward and how he hoped to change this.

Ma’s reply was “who feels this? Tell me and I will talk with them.” Labor groups jumped on this comment as a means of criticizing the administration.

Sun Yu-lien
Taiwan Labor Front
Under Ma’s leadership Taiwan’s economy has stagnated over the past few years. Laborers’ salaries are at the same level as 16 years ago. He has been president for seven years and hasn’t witnessed this. This has got to be a Taiwan miracle.

DPP lawmakers also took the opportunity to criticize the government.

Huang Wei-cher
DPP Legislator
President Ma truly cannot hear the complaints of the public. He doesn’t know why the public feels so much stagnation and lack of a way forward.

Even lawmakers from his party were quick to pick up on Ma’s gaffe.

Chi Kuo-tung
KMT Legislator
I fear that President Ma’s telephone line is now jammed with too many people complaining about stagnation and lack of a way forward.

While President Ma may have been joking when he made his comment, the issue has found traction in the public.
中文 Chinese  
不知台灣人悶 馬:誰很悶?讓我知道

馬總統昨天中午和來台訪問的「傅爾布萊特學人年度研究會議」的學者交流,被學者問到台灣人為什麼悶?沒想到馬總統居然回說,”誰很悶?讓我知道”。無里頭的回答,讓勞工團體更悶,民進黨立委更拿這句話大做文章。

總統禮拜四出席「傅爾布萊特學人年度研究會議」,現場一位外籍學者問馬總統,知不知道為什麼人民覺得悶?要如何改變。

馬總統的回應是,”誰很悶?讓我知道,我來和他們談一談”,一句誰很悶,讓勞工團體簡直悶透了!

[[勞陣秘書長 孫友聯]]
“台灣過去幾年在他主政之下,一直在一個悶經濟的狀態,我們(勞工)的薪資倒退16年,已經當了七年的總統,還沒有看到這些,應該是台灣奇蹟了”

民進黨立委更抓住機會拿這句話,放大檢視。

[[立委(民) 黃偉哲]]
“馬總統真的耳朵長了毛,才聽不見民怨在哪裡,才不知道人民苦悶在哪裡”

面對馬總統的失言,自家立委也無奈的調侃

[[立委(國) 紀國棟]]
“很悶的可以告訴他,我怕總統府的電話線恐怕會被打爆”

雖然只是一句玩笑話,但造成社會觀感不佳是事實,馬總統往後發言應該要更謹慎。
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