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 Memo from Bangkok - NY Times
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| PL |
Lagt på d. 07/04-2010 16:57
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Excellent article from The New York Times: http://www.nytime...tml?src=me PL |
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| CHINGCHOK |
Lagt på d. 07/04-2010 17:37
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Spændende læsning tak for Research PL Mvh Chingchok จิ้งจก
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| Silpakorn |
Lagt på d. 08/04-2010 02:14
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Well.. if you look at it from one angle yes.... I disagree with the column though. Thaksin, he is simply a businessman who got chance to reach high up on his politics career to become prime minister. Somehow, he used his way of running business to run the country. Look at the record for his business career, most of the firms he used to run didn't go well. So, how could he do well in running a country. Anyway, he is a businessman who has the vision on how to make the most (profit) out of what he has hands on. Some people claimed that people had more money to spend when Thaksin was in power. Is it really so? One should remember that the money he gave away to people was not from his own pocket! So, of course, he could just gave it away because he knows that some people can be bought! Don't be that naive, no businessman gives away his money without expecting something in return. Thaksin was going to have to answer publicly some questions about his political honesty and he dissolved parliament just before leaving the country to avoid answering the questions--with a Russian cargo plane chartered to carry his loot away! He was a "care-taker PM" during the coup, and the whole middle class--if not more--in BKK were so happy on the day of the take-over. The coup-makers set up new elections and gave power back to the winners of those elections, but it was shown clearly by the courts in another clear and well documented ruling that that group--TRT rebranded as PPP--had bought the election, like always, so they were disbanded from politics...and the story goes on.) Regarding people coming from rural area who make up the majority of the red-shirts. They are very disenfranchised, but they should blame the local levels of government in their towns and villages for this. For decades the local 'pu-yai', AKA 'big-guy', served himself and threatened trouble for anyone in the area who resisted/complained. What the TRT party (Thaksin's Thai'Rak'Thai pary) did for the rural folks was give them ability to borrow money against their land and start a 30 Baht health-care scheme. (The heath-care scheme was not TRT's idea originally, but they took credit for it.) The sense of empowerment to people who had always been pushed-down created a love-affair for TRT (which, in Thai political practice, is embodied by personality, not platform/policy.) The love-affair is fondly remembered, but the reality now for many rural families is crushing personal declared DEBT, a more troublesome and huge loan-shark debt burden partnered with criminal threats to keep paying usurous interest rates, a 30 Baht healthcare system that cannot be sustained and does not deliver, and current poor water supplies for farms and low prices for rice. Many of the new motor-bikes and pick-up trucks that were bought with borrowed money are repossessed, but the debt continues. The masses of red-shirts are offered money to join rallies that promise to bring back some empowerment. And EVERY THAI knows this! There are some Thai who do not think much about the long run, but short run only. For example, having money in hand today is better than investing that money in his/her own child's education for the sake of the kid's future. Personally, I admire the present prime minister as he is trying to use his education in administrating the country. Even though it can be difficult for him to try to convince the whole country that he can do it, I still believe in him. I believe that the only thing the red people are fighting for is Thaksin's return to power and that's about it! Do they really want democracy, no! Everyone knows that Thaksin still has a chance to return to power because he has MONEY!!! This column only represented the point of view from those representing Thaksin, why not talk to someone who know Thaksin's game, e.g. students- teachers from Chulalongkorn University or those who are not working for Thaksin's money. The reader will know thing better I think. ps. question: is it proper for a former prime minister to take an offered position of an economic consultant from a neighbour country? Redigeret af Silpakorn d. 08/04-2010 02:39 |
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