The Outsourcing of the Social Welfare Services to Private Sectors, Problematic for the Country

This article, summed up the problem of the government’s, outsourcing the provisions of social services that the social services department IS in charge of, causing the provisions, the quality of care to drop to, subpar standards, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Post-1990, the government pushed forth the “simplifying government officials” and the “consolidation of public resources”, outsourcing of the social services became one of the means the government has of achieving this.  while, in 1999, after the government started employing the “purchasing methods”, the outsourcing contractual became most of how the social services are provided to the public need.

For the not-for-profit, the contract from the government not only provided the foundations their needed resources to keep on surviving as agencies, and it’d, ensured the legalities of the organizations.  And yet, this trend had, forced many organizations to turn toward privatization of the market economy, with NO sight of the consequences this may have.  On the other side, the government’s turning the public governance to the private sector, causing the functionality of the government to become, hollowed, out.  Take for instance, this recent example of Children’s Welfare League, due to the countless unreasonable means of handling, it’d become, a chip of the fights between the two political parties, btu what we need to examine more closely, is the cause and effects of outsourcing social welfare securities.

The government’s primary reasons for packaging up the services to bundles, and hiring the organizations to oversee the functions, is for the sake of reducing the financial burdens on the governments.  At the beginning stages, there are not enough of the locally operated not-for-profit organizations, with a limited choices to select from.  And, once a not-for-profit organization was willing to carry, then, the organization would be asked to carry the load long-term, and to prevent the organizations from dropping the cases, the operators had to beg other organizations to compete for the cases.  And this also, caused the indicative foundations, the cases these organizations take in, spanned throughout the entire, island, and the Children’s Welfare League is an example of this.

“The lacking in number of the locally provided”, had been a long-term problem of the privatization of social services provisions of Taiwan, the resources that the government had allotted, greatly exceeded what the locally owned and operated private organizations can handle, especially in the areas of social security nets, childcare, and long-term care programs, a lot of the not-for-profit became temps for hire.  And the services provided, is what’s written in the contracts, including human resources, finances, professional trainings, to the frequency of the service of care being, provided, only matched to the government agencies’ expectations.

The not-for-profits accepting the cases by the government, currently, there’s, only limited means of dropping out.  But, I suggest, that the government and the scholars all must consider, how many cases can a not-for-profit handle in a certain county, to reduce the lacking in functioning of these, organizations.  Like how the Children’s Welfare League is responsible for overseeing twenty-five-percent of the children being adopted out, and the pausing of these services, may cause, huge problems.

The social workers needed the trainings before they start working, easier said than done, take this case for example, the visitations, the child development, and the observations, and telling if something wasn’t right, that’s not taught in school.  If the social workers only rely on the occupational trainings before they began working, then, the social workers are ill-equipped.  Seeing the proposed six improvements by the Department of Health & Social Welfare, as an entry level employee, we can’t, help but feel, helpless, because we’re still, standing still, maybe, the higher up in the government still had yet to realize, that this, is the hollow effect of how the government is, outsourcing the public functions’ responsibilities to the locally owned and operated organizations.

And so, from this case of the young boy getting abused to death, it’d brought out the biggest problem of the system, that the government outsources what it should be doing, to the locally owned and operated private sector, and, this is problematic, because of the lack of fundings, government supports, and the lack of trainings of the social workers, they’re not ruled by a stricter set of guidelines that their jobs required, and there’s this, lack of hands-on, observation, intern trainings that is absolutely a necessity to do the job correctly, hence, these HOLES of the nets of social security are still, going, B-U-S-T!

The Air, My Friend

The column by Jimmi Liao, on the effects of spoiling your young, translated by, me…

This is the LAST Time I Take You Flying

You Will, Fly on Your Own Next Time.

I Really Don’t Like

That Tone of, Voice, You’re Speaking to Me in…

the artwork of Jimmi Liao, courtesy of UDN.com

And, as you still may have guessed, this is still, an ABUSER/ENABLER interaction, as the one who’d taken the individual on her/his back to fly, got used to being, SAT on (‘cuz s/he is the bird???), and the SPOILED BRAT got used to having everything provided to her/him by the bird, why the @$#% would s/he need to stand on her/his own, I mean, you got someone, covering YOUR sorry ASS, and therefore, you NEVER, learn to wipe up your own messes, and so, this shit is still NOT, good at ALL!

Are the Parents Helping, or are They, Hurting Their Own Young?

When your children who are growing up started wailing when they can’t handle things in their own lives, what, will you, parents, do???  The results of spoiling your own ADULT children, R-O-T-T-E-N, translated…

I’m an English instructor, I’d assigned my students a page of terms to look up once for their homework assignments, for them to write the meanings of the terms in Chinese, and the pronunciations out.  As the assignments were picked up, I’d discovered, that a student who’d, not paid ANY attention in the class before turned in a perfect assignment this time, just as I was about to, praise him, I’d found, that his page of words had been wrinkled up, stained, and that there was a word with the different handwriting compared to the students next to a term.  As I inquired, the student told me, that it was his mother who’d looked up the words for him, and written the definitions down for him, all he had to do, was to copy what she’d put down, then, erase his own mom’s work.  Such a shame, that there was, just that one term that wasn’t, erased completely, that busted him.

this is what you, MOTHERS are, “making”!

and they’d stopped being “cute”, a long, long, L-O-N-G time, ago! Photo from online

I’m well aware of the hearts of the parents in the world, sure, but, there should be a boundary to the responsibilities.  The children can’t be well-studied in English, can’t write the essays well enough, doesn’t that mean, that they need more, practice on it?  There was a college professor who was a friend of mine who’d mentioned, that she had a third-year student, that when he needed an absence, he had his own mother come to school, to file one for him.  The Asian parents are, too responsible here, took care of their own young too much, to the point of doing their homework assignments FOR them, to even applying for their children’s university applications too.

But, rather than doing everything FOR the children, why not, train them instead, to get the children to learn to take responsibilities for themselves, this would be way more helpful, for doing their assignments FOR them for over TEN years.  Helping the children micromanaging their lives, in the long run, it’s going to do more damage than good!

And, this, is, a PERFECT example of how these, Asian parents “made” their own adult children incapable of, handling their own lives, because, these ADULTS in their, baby DIAPERS are in need of their mamas to, continue to WIPE their sorry asses, and, as we already know how all you ladies, hovered over your own, ADULT baby B-O-Y-S, they will, NEVER grow up, which is going to, create more troubles for the society that we live in.

And you god damn mothers still foolishly believed that that’s L-O-V-E you’re “giving” endlessly, to your own baby BOYS in them, adult-sized diapers?  Yeah, right.

Do remember, that we (other women unrelated to Y-O-U!!!), will end up with those, two-hundred pound infants, in pacifiers, diapers, going goo-goo-ga-ga here!

He’d Stabbed the Elderly Neighbor, Who Raised Him Twenty-Two Times to Death Because She Refused to Give Him Money, Sentenced to Life in Prison

Stabbing the woman who’d raised him as her own to DEATH, for money, and he still didn’t get the DEATH penalty!  On crime and punishment, and the judge’s considerations, which allowed this individual to escape DEATH, and no, the punishment here still, does NOT fit the crime, nowhere NEAR the vicinity of it!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Elderly Woman Took Care of Him, Raised Him for Sixteen Years, He Saw Her Money, and Murdered Her, But Admitted to What He’d Done, the Judge Considered that He was Young, that He’d Not Considered the Consequences of His Actions, Didn’t Give Him the Death Penalty

Last year in October, the man, Lee couldn’t successfully get money from the seventy-eight year-old elderly woman, Jiang who’d raised him for sixteen years, stabbed her twenty-two times, murdering her, took away $11,200,000N.T. in cash the woman had on her, went to the sex massage parlors to spend the amount, then, ran to hid out in Hualien, and then he was caught.  The Hsinbei District Courts charged him on murder and robbery, sentenced him to life, stripped him of the government post for life, this can still be appealed.

As the suspect had been caught, he’d stayed in police custody to date.  The judge found, hat the victim wasn’t related to Lee, but loved him like he was her grandson, that Lee wanted money to spend, and couldn’t get it from her, and took to murder, there’s NO means of sentence reduction for him; but considered how he’d admitted to what he’d done, and how he was only nineteen at the time when he’d murdered the woman, at the age of prefrontal cortex not yet fully developed, based off of the two pacts “not a crime of the most severities”, gave him life sentence.

The verdict stated, that when Lee was born, because his father was at large from committing a crime, his mother had a psychological disorder, his own grandmother couldn’t care for him, when he was only six months of age, he was left in the care of the deceased, who was his family’s neighbor; the deceased felt awful for Lee, took him in, treated him like he was her own, cared for him, raised him until he was sixteen; but Lee started running with the bad crowds back in high school, he was sent back home to live with his uncle.

But Lee would steal from his uncle too often, his uncle couldn’t put up with it, to the point that his uncle and aunt almost got divorced because of him, changing the locks on their doors, to the ultimate, chasing Lee out; Lee became homeless and wandered in the local parks, he’d turned to the deceased for help, her heart went soft for him, and would give him the money he’d asked her for, and last year in September, she’d even had her youngest son to apprentice at the plastic factory he’d owned.

Many times, as Lee had asked the woman for money, she’d agreed, and he’d taken the money out of her own pockets, and he took it to be norm.  On October 20^th of last, the factory paid the fees for the construction work, the woman’s youngest son withdrew the $360,000N.T. out, Lee started having the bad thoughts, before work on the following day, he’d gone to the woman’s house to ask for the money, and on the way to the woman’s house, he’d gone and bought a fruit knife too; and because the woman refused to give him the money he’d asked for, he’d stabbed her a total of twenty-two times on her head, her back ferociously.

After Lee murdered the woman who’d raised him so brutally, he’d robbed away the $112,000N.T. in cash, left the murder weapon on the staircase of the first floor of the place where Yang-Jiang lived, went back to his rental place in a cab, changed out of the blood stained clothes, headed to the sex massage parlor to spend the money, then, hired a cab to escape to Hualien, and hid in the friend he’d met online, who had no clue what he’d done.  The police chased the leads of his whereabout, and he was arrested as he’d gone out to get the midnight snacks, and, turned over the $99,300N.T. that he hadn’t the chance to spent up yet that’s stained with the blood from the murder.

And so, how is this not a death penalty case?  I mean, this LOSER murdered the woman who raised him up as her own so brutally, because she’d decided to cut him off, because she didn’t want to give him any more money, and this is the end result of spoiling someone rotten, because this loser got away with asking the elder who’d raised him for whatever he’d wanted as a child, which was why he supposed that it was okay for him to get more money from her, and when she’d refused to “feed” him any longer, he’d snapped, and, murdered her, so, brutally, and yet, he still didn’t get death penalty for what he’d done.

The Fragmented Memories of His Forgotten Childhood Now Slowly, Remembered…

The memories of what he’d tried desperately to recall but couldn’t, all came back to the surfaces again…

The fragmented memories of his forgotten childhood now slowly, remembered, because, he was, finally, ready for them now.  The fragmented memories of his forgotten childhood, a childhood, full of, darkness, of pain, of hardships had been, blocked out of his awareness, for survival’s sake, and now, as he’d, survived those years, he finally started to, remember.

The fragmented memories of his childhood, now slowly, remembered, to say the impact was less, was a total, lie, because it wasn’t, but now he’d, matured, he could, better deal with them, more effectively, unlike how he may have dealt with them, had they come back to him, earlier.

the nightmares of the past all came back to life! Sketch from online

The fragmented memories of his childhood, now slowly, remembered.  What do you want from me?  He’d asked them, and, received, NO replies, because his past had been, dead a long, long, long time, and it takes them awhile, to finally, come back to life again!

The fragmented memories of his childhood, now slowly, remembered, it was painful, but, as he’d, reexperienced all the moments of trauma of his younger years, he’d reminded himself, that he wasn’t, that helpless young child anymore, and he was better able to cope with everything, like he was, watching a movie of his own, childhood trauma, as an, outsider…

How Do You Make Up for Missing the Coming of Age of the Children? In the Custody Battles, Do Not Make the Damages Even Harder

How family relations is too important to overlook for all you parents who are, too busy, making ends meet, and NOT spending enough time, with your own young, borrowing from the failed marriage of the singer, Wang, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The marriage of the singer, Wang and his wife, Lee went bust, the woman stayed silent for two whole days, then, started on the offensive, quoted the female blogger, “the one who’s absentee always has a valid excuse”, mentioned how Wang missed all the important milestones of their children’s lives.  The experts told, that the “false” single families are increasing by the numbers today, that there would need to have the “high concentration” of family interactions, to make up for it.

Lee believed, that if you cared, then, you will make the time for it, that love is reflected on the behaviors, not on what is being said, but she’d forgiven, backed down, and Wang stayed absentee, and his children had been disappointed repeatedly, and cried over, over, and over again.  A lot of the middle school and elementary school instructor stated that their story is a great example of “family education” and “emotional education”.

The associate professor of World Journalism University, Jeng stated, whether it be single-parent families or falsified single parenthood, there are, many stories of children coming out of these families well-rounded, the forefront is that the parents need to give the children what they needed the most.  Jeng told, if it’s a false single-parent family, the couple need to explain why they’re absent in the children’s lives; if it’s a single parent family, then, the parents must consider what’s best for the child, when fighting over the parental and custody rights.

The associate professor of Human Development and Family major of the Taiwan National Education University, Wei said, whether it be single parent families or not, the focus should be on having high-quality interactions.  Liking taking an hour of your days, to just spend time with your young, to sit down for a meal together, to exercise together, to stroll together, otherwise, the family interactions, lacking in high quality time together, will eventually, crack, wide open.

And so, this still showed, how very important it is, for you, stupid (b/c that is what you all are???) parents, to MAKE the time, to spend it with your own young, because, they are only young for a very brief moment in your lives, and, if you don’t take advantage of the time with them when they were little, do NOT expect them to be closer to you when they’re older, and, there’s just, NO making up for lost time, with your children IF you had missed out on their younger years, do NOT think, that you can make up for it because you can’t, and that, is the lesson to be taken away, from this.

A Geek Was Role-Playing, Took a Rifle Toy Gun into the Courthouse

All I want to say to THIS is: are you, FUCKING (don’t pardon me here!) STUPID!!!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The twenty-year-old male, Su, yesterday morning, took a TOY rifle walked several kilometers to the Chiayi Local District Courts, told the guards “I want to go in for a tour!”, passed the security checks, left the toy gun in the care of the bailiffs, spent about five minutes in the lobby, then, left with the gun; the members of the local community saw him carrying that rifle out, they were thrilled, and notified the police, and eight hundred meters away from the courthouse, the police caught him in front of a super convenience store, took him in for inquiries, and, sent him to the D.A.’s office on threatening behaviors in the public, the D.A. interrogated him, and sent him back home.

The gun that Su had with him, was found to NOT have any killing powers, the court evaluated, the local district courts told, because the man was more than compliant, and considering how the court house is an open-to-the-public place, after he’d passed the security checks, they’d allowed him inside, that in the future, if similar situations were to occur, the guards are going to be more thorough, more careful, and have the local police officers to help out.

here’s what a TOY rifle looks like…

photo from online

Based off of understanding, two years ago, Su bought the toy rifle for $6,000N.T.s, he’d wanted to go out for exercises, and role play a little, it was the first time he’d taken that toy rifle “out for a walk”, the label on the gun barrel said, “low motion toy gun!”, and is activated by air.

Yesterday, Su put on a hat, with the toy rifle, exited from his home, his older sister saw, tried to persuade him out of bringing the toy gun out, about a little past eleven in the morn, he’d walked a couple of kilometers from his residence, to the Chiayi District Court, complied with the security checks, and, have the security keep his toy rifle, stayed around on the first floor lobby of the courthouse for about five minutes, took his gun with him, continued walking east on Lingseng E. Road, then turned left onto Dong-Yi Road.

As the police were called, they’d rushed to the district courts, and not found Su, they’d tracked him through the street surveillance cameras, an at around one in the afternoon, they’d stopped him at a super convenience store on Dong-Yi Road, Su didn’t resist arrest, claimed, “it’s not illegal to walk with a toy rifle down the streets!”, denied having the intent to cause harm to the general public.

Su’s mother told, that after her son dropped out of middle school, he’d become, a stay-at-home geek, rarely headed outside, and he’d logged online to watch the war films, loved collecting the guns, and the rifle he took out, she’d paid for; in recent years, her son had slept through the daytime, and stayed up through the nights, suffered from a sleep disorder, that he was being treated at a psychiatric clinic, and had his meds regularly, and is in therapy.

The police found two witnesses, and the bailiff from the courts to testify, that how he was misconstrued for carrying a real weapon, and the members of the public felt, threatened and afraid.  The C.E.O. of the Chiayi Attorney’s Guild, Chen believed, that there would be need for evidence of how Su behaved in a threatening way, then, Su would get convicted for breaking the laws on social order.

and here’s, a REAL one…

comparing to the previous photo, can anybody tell the difference??? Photo from online

And the takeaway “brownie point” for this one is???  Oh yeah, don’t be STUPID, and BRING that life-like TOY gun to the public, because other than Y-O-U, the one who’s, bearing that “FALSE arms”, nobody ELSE knows, that wow, that air or BB gun or rifle looks, so much like the real thing, and we should, all???  DUCK!  When we see someone, walking down a street with that!

Letters From A Son: A Note To The Old Man — The Written Addiction

Hey Pop,It’s been awhile. It’s been 31 years to be exact. In fact it was 31 years ago today when you left us. I’m sorry it’s been a little while since my last letter. Not sure if you can see the news where you are but the world is in a little bit of a tailspin. […]

Letters From A Son: A Note To The Old Man — The Written Addiction

The Air, My Friend

The column by Jimmi Liao, translated…

The Wind Started Blowing, the Hat Flew Off

The Wind Stopped, the Hat, Dropped into the Water

The Wind Got Angry, Why is Everything Blamed on it?

artwork of Jimmi Liao, off of UDN.com

This is scapegoating, because instead of making sure that that hat is, SECURE on your heads, you’d, blamed it on the wind because it’s, much, much easier than, to take responsibilities for what you failed to do in the first place, this happens, quite a lot, if you can believe it!

The Murder of a Police Officer at a Night Club, “a Spoiled Rotten Brat”, His Mother Once Called Him “Well-Behaved”

So, whose F-A-U-L-T IS it, the mother’s, the father’s, the son himself’s???  From the Front Page Sections, translated…

The primary suspect who was responsible for beating the detective, Shue to death was a member of the “daddy’s boys club”, his father ran a company that sold grand-scale lamps, he’d gotten sent to Australia to study since his middle school years, after his return after college, he’d worked at his father’s company, in a minor position, and would often hang out at nightclubs.  The police described him as “a spoiled rotten brat”, not knowing the severity of his own actions, and suspected of placing the blames on his accomplice.

Based off of understanding, Tseng’s family background is very rich, he lives in a mansion in the high-end Xinyi District with his parents, and his older brother and sister-in-law, with two rooms for the hired help too; his father had a stroke and was immobilized, he’d owned a lighting fixture company in Shijr, Hsinbei City, they own FIVE sports cars, including Benz, Bentley, Audi, and Chevrolet, which were all registered under the company.

After the murder of the police officer, the police came to visit Tseng’s home, but Tseng wasn’t there, his family members were watching television, the cops clarified, “Your son was suspected of the murder of a police officer!”, the parents didn’t believe it, the police said, “Just watch the news!”, the parents turned to the news channels, and were very stunned, still couldn’t believe, that their son would beat up a cop.

Even though, the son had committed a crime, the parents still stood by him, the mother told the officer, that her son is extremely well-behaved, and couldn’t have murdered anybody.  And, after the father dialed the son’s cell, and was rerouted to voicemail, he said that if the police can’t get in touch with his son, then just “arrest me instead”!

The girlfriend who’d dated Tseng for a year, Liu claimed to be attending a certain private university in Hsinbei City, they’d gone all over the places to hang out; the police searched their Facebook pages, there were a TON of outings of them together, and, within a few short months, they’d gone all over the world like Hong Kong, Macau, the Alps, etc., etc., etc.  The police sighed, “with the normal wages of the average younger generations, this simply couldn’t be achieved!”

The police discovered, that Tseng didn’t have ties with gangs, but because he’d gone to night clubs to party a lot, and is a huge spender, he’d met a TON of gangsters, and, the gangsters may see that he is rich, and that, was why they’d “had his back”, but, after Tseng turned himself in to the police, he’d told, that he didn’t tell his “brothers” to beat up on the officers, claimed that there were a TON of people whom he didn’t know, and they met, and started beating on one another.

The Second Generations of Yu-Chang, Large-Scale Spender, and Active

The primary suspect who was responsible for telling others to murder the police officer, Tseng, has dual citizen ship from Australia and Taiwan, is said to be from a rich family, his family manages the Yo-Chang Company, Tseng went abroad to finish his studies, then, started working for the company too.

And so, you still have this SPOILED B-R-A-T who’d MURDERED a cop, and now, he’s only starting to realize the seriousness of the matter, and, he cries, “mommy, mommy, help me, save me”, and, naturally HIS parents would still cover HIS ass, because that, was what they’d done all along, and that, would be how this LOSER was so totally, SPOILED R-O-T-T-E-N!