Ke Zhien was accused of deleting and freezing the cultural budget. Yin Lipi: Even the arithmetic was wrong.

Kuomintang Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ke Zhien was accused of deleting the cultural budget freeze. He criticized his opponent Lai Ruilong for "not doing his homework" and emphasized that "the budget reached a new high" and "only cut 3.3%." Yin Li, the Democratic Progressive Party's Kaohsiung City Council candidate who once served as the director of Kaohsiung City Culture, used two illustrations to criticize Ke Zhien for making mistakes in his budget calculations and having the nerve to talk about education and culture in Kaohsiung. He was basically meeting "Culture Weng Xiaoling."

Yin Li pointed out that Commissioner Ke claimed that "only 3.3% was deleted", but when looking at the budget table of the Ministry of Culture, the amount of deletions and deletions alone was as high as nearly 1.38 billion yuan, and the actual reduction was as high as 4.6%! What's more, the overall budget for 2014, including the forward-looking plan, is as high as 30.393 billion yuan. The disposable resources for 2015 are already at a low point in recent years. If you can even make mistakes in basic arithmetic and forcefully embellish the budget cuts, is this called being a legislator with all your heart?

He further mentioned that Ke Zhien claimed that he was only targeting TaiwanPlus or media publicity. The truth is that the amount of "deletion" this time was as high as 585 million yuan, including general administrative fees, commission fees, equipment and investment and other grassroots operating costs. The budget base of the Ministry of Culture is far lower than that of other major ministries. Such indiscriminate cuts will directly paralyze the daily business of various departments and bureaus and the project cooperation of civil society.

Furthermore, 47.38 million yuan in media policy promotion fees were “completely deleted”, and there is no publicity budget. Who knows a good exhibition? Who comes to watch the local theater troupe perform? How to popularize cultural policies? Commissioner Ke brutally cut off all media propaganda, and then abruptly opposed international propaganda and traditional art, which was completely outsider thinking.

Yin Li criticized Ke Zhien and the Legislative Yuan Blue and White for delaying the review and cutting it hard, leaving private teams in default risks and livelihood crises. It is impossible to unfreeze the budget that was frozen this year. In recent years, Kaohsiung has finally built a southern cultural brand by relying on Pier 2, Weiwuying, Gaoliu, and Dagang. Central resources have been greatly siphoned away, and the central and southern areas have been the first to bear the brunt.

He questioned Ke Zhien, who raised his hands in the Legislative Yuan to cut resources and freeze budgets, but when he returned to Kaohsiung, he talked about the future of art and culture. How can this double-sided approach lead to the emphasis on education and culture in face-to-face interviews? The budget has been cut, and there is no supporting package to fill the gaps in Kaohsiung's arts and culture. They will only use arrogance and wrong language to shift the focus. Such tactics will only bring endless pain to the cultural circles!