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PM says prices aren't as high as she expected

Published: 7 May 2012 at 00.00
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Cabinet members yesterday visited a fresh market to survey food prices and insisted most products were cheaper than they were last year and that prices were coming down.

PM's Office Minister Nalinee Taveesin receives assurance from a market seller that prices these days aren't all that high.

PM's Office Minister Nalinee Taveesin, who paid a visit to Watthananan market on Song Prapha Road in Don Muang district, said only fruit, vegetables and meat cost more.

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sunshine51
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Discussion 72 : 08 May 2012 at 17.1172
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jib, that article was written by a family friend to make the Shinawatra to be something they are not!!!
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Discussion 71 : 08 May 2012 at 16.1871
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sunshine 51 - Look up the article titled, "Thaksin, Yingluck, Abhisit and rural Thailand" published by Bangkok Pundit, Jul 08, 2011.
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Discussion 70 : 08 May 2012 at 11.5670
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You guys need to stop making this into a PT vs Dem thing and just move on by providing constructive criticism to the government on how they could better improve their performances.
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Discussion 69 : 08 May 2012 at 11.4469
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jib disc. 67, you mean they weren't wealthy in the 1800's??? I live in CM and it's a known fact that the Shinawatras have been wealthy, as far back as people can remember!!!
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Discussion 68 : 08 May 2012 at 04.0668
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Khun SteveCM #60, stock market normally is a leading economic indicator, but when it was grossly inflated by FED's trillions of dollars, it's no longer an accurate, reliable, or useful indicator. Ask yourself if the stock market is this high, how come unemployment has not fallen back to normal, but remained twice as high? All of this on top of Obama's ticking debt bomb as he continues to spend like a drunken socialist, piling on the $14 national debt at a rate of $1.5 trillion a year.
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Discussion 67 : 08 May 2012 at 01.5667
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englishbob 66 - The Shinawatra family wasn't always wealthy.
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Discussion 66 : 08 May 2012 at 00.4566
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Disc 65 JohninBKK
Not like you to spout propaganda so easy to disprove... "YS grew up in a low-income family that worked in a typical wet market."
The Shinawatras have been involved in politics since 1968. Yingluck's great-grandfather made a fortune through farming. Her father was an MP for the liberal party. Yingluck grew up in possibly the richest family in Chiang Mai, her father owned a coffee shop, two cinemas, a car dealership, a motorbike dealership and owned lots of land for growing flowers and oranges.
'low-income family"? lol
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Discussion 65 : 08 May 2012 at 00.1565
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bangkokbob 47 - "She blamed the Democrats."
Actually, YS is probably the only politician that doesn't blame things on someone else.

gleentea 49 - ""Uncontrolled spending by the previous Dem government..." Your personal opinion."
Look up the national debt, year for year, from 1998 to 2011. TS paid off half of Thailands debt in 5 years, while AV/friends managed to double the debt.

koolbreez 50 - "None of these government officials have ever shopped for raw food products in their life."
YS grew up in a low-income family that worked in a typical wet market. Some say it's why TS, a wealthy man, can connect so well with the poor.
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Discussion 64 : 07 May 2012 at 23.4764
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Food prices all over the world are beyong reach of most population, we are facing a food crisis in the making because of climate change, irratic weather pattern, flood, draught, crop and animal desease and increasing population from poor and developing countries. Asia will face the most severe food crisis when its population increase uncontrol for next 10years, people living below US$1 is very common. Producer countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia is experiencing high food and petrol prices, if oil continues to hover above US$120 per barrel longer all of us will have to cut back on food.
Thailand althrough is bless with large agriculture land, its farmers are just under too much debt to grow more crops. Thai farmers are unproductive and grows only crops that sell higher prices thereby flooding the market with the same crop and prices eventually collapse, thai government should form a commitee to determine who and where grows what. Market forces will decide the price but farmers should be told to improve productivity and grows a much more varieties of cash crop in one rai of land. They should also establish provincial level central trade body to manage distribution and eliminate the middlemen, alot of my country large supermarkest have bypass middlemen and contract out farming to sell directly to them, thereby giving farmers the real market prices while giving customers the assured quality and low price.
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Discussion 63 : 07 May 2012 at 22.5863
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Since retiring last year @ Ubon, prices are higher since the floods of last year and I do not see a downturn by businesses to lower them-“PERIOD!” It’s all “GREED!” Another “HIT” on their middle class-what’s left of it.
Respectfully to All
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