UDD: Can academics do better?

Published: 3 Oct 2012 at 16.15
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Korkaew Pikulthong, a co-leader of the red-shirt United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Wednesday challenged academics at the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) to come up with a better rice pledging scheme.

He was responding to the move by a group of 146 academics and students at Nida to petition the Constitution Court to call a halt to the scheme, arguing that it violates the constitution which promotes free trade and prohibits the state from competing in business with the private sector.

Mr Korkaew said on Wednesday that he rejected their argument and the court challenge and supported the rice pledging scheme being implemented by the Pheu Thai-led government.

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cocoricco
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Discussion 9 : 03 Oct 2012 at 18.009
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Spoken from the mouth of a man that uses Parliamentary immunity to shrug off his red shirt terrorist burning of Bangkok charges, while his village Issan and northern comrades stay in jail for doing his and Jutaporn dirty work. They only care about the rice pledging program because their corrupt provincial counterparts that profit off the system fund and intimidate the population to vote Peua Thai. SCARY!
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Discussion 8 : 03 Oct 2012 at 17.518
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“Without oil people can survive, but without food, including rice, they will die”, he said.

Yes, people need food to survive, but people have survived for tens of millions of years before this corrupt and money losing rice pledging scheme, and will survive long after it's gone and the government has bankrupted the people.

By contrast, how long can Korkaew and the Red Shirts survive without sugar from their sugar daddy in Dubai? A few weeks? A few days? Hours?
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Discussion 7 : 03 Oct 2012 at 17.357
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The state is not competing in business with the private sector. The scheme is to help raise the quality of life of rice farmers and encourage them to stay in farming and not get peanut from middlemen etc. The middlemen etc can participate in the scheme and have fair competition with the farmers.
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Discussion 6 : 03 Oct 2012 at 17.316
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Of course he backs the scheme, he is just towing the line of his boss. You can see this when he says "The price pledging scheme should be continued for two or three years", Quoting his boss
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Discussion 5 : 03 Oct 2012 at 17.145
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i also don't think comparing rice and oil is correct..I don't think we are in a rice cartel. Maybe i'm wrong though.
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Discussion 4 : 03 Oct 2012 at 17.134
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I think what people really want is a little more transparency and some tweaks to it. Once there's some transparency then perhaps some specific problems can be identified and worked on. The criticism really should't be considered anti-government or anti-whatever..I think people just want the funds better used.

Its all moot anyways..PT and the red shirts don't believe in constructive criticism
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Discussion 3 : 03 Oct 2012 at 16.523
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Does the UDD leader not imitate the man-from-far-away like a monkey does????? The academics, and every taxpayer in Thailand have every right to stop this scheme from which too many cronies of the new elite from the North gain fortunes and the farmers get ( cheap) peanuts....
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Discussion 2 : 03 Oct 2012 at 16.422
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Can academics do better? UDD asked...
The DEM formula started during the former government administration was much more reasonable !!!
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Discussion 1 : 03 Oct 2012 at 16.361
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“Without oil people can survive, but without food, including rice, they will die”, he said.

Oh, so simple, and the wired academics don't get it. Well, well... Someday Mr. Korkaew will realize that life is just slightly more complicated than that, and that if people can survive with no oil, they might also survive without 'Thai'-rice. And the Thai farmers who do nothing other than rice, may have a problem and will totally depend on the government. Not to imagine what all the oil countries will do once there is no more, but that's not our problem, is it?
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