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Discussion 15 : 05/02/2012 at 10:27 AM15
dao D13 - "Even when your red heroes fail you still point the finger at he Democrats"
What part of "The rice scheme is a horrible plan...A terrible idea distorting market price...tax payer dollars wasted" sounds like supporting 'red heroes' and blaming it all on the Dems?Discussion 14 : 04/02/2012 at 01:52 AM14
Khun JohninBKK #12, why do you want to make the Dem Party look better than what they deserve?
Discussion 13 : 04/02/2012 at 12:11 AM13
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Even when your red heroes fail you still point the finger at he Democrats .Its all you and your red shirts buddies now .Enjoy watching the country crash and burn under failed leadership ?Discussion 12 : 03/02/2012 at 04:17 PM12
spiceman D6 - "all of these nonsenses come from the same jokers who turned the dams into WMDs."
No, this rice scheme has nothing to do with the Dem party.
geoffo D8 - I know you like blaming everything on one man, but did you even know what rice scheme the Dem Party had? AV's policy was to force poor farmers to sell below market price so middle men could increase their profit. Who do you think farmers would vote for, given that policy? Who do you think the tiny minority of wealthy middle men voted vote? AV literally handed the vote to TS.Discussion 11 : 03/02/2012 at 04:03 PM11
What do the people expect, when a policeman and fugitive is running the country from abroad? This government with all its populist policies, incompetence and inefficiency has become a nightmare for this country and it will become worse before it ends in a big bang. The prime minister cannot answer any questions and uses the same phrases again and again and every warning and doubts by experts are blown into the wind. In the last 20 years, I haven’t seen any such mess in Thailand.
Discussion 10 : 03/02/2012 at 10:56 AM10
The PTP is honouring its election promise to the Thai farmers, approximately 37 million Thais rely on the cultivation of rice as their source of income. The only beneficiaries of a free market system are the multinationalists and the rice exporters.
It's ok for the United States, which currently subsidises their farmers at around $20 billion per year, mainly corn, cotton, soy bean, wheat and tobacco, but not ok for developing countries to ensure their farmers receive adequate returns for there produce. It is an extraordinary distortion of global trade, where the west spends $360 billion a year on protecting its agriculture with a network of subsidies & tariffs that cost developing countries about $50 billion in lost exports - Wikipedia.
Now these so called free marketeers want to empty the dams on the Chao Phraya basin, because of some preconceived notion that this will prevent flooding in their precious ivory towers in Bangkok. No matter that the subsistence rice farmers will loose another rice crop due to flooding or electricity generation will be jeopardised.Discussion 9 : 03/02/2012 at 10:35 AM9
One has to tailor market goods to suit the current market trends.In the end it will be the farmers and the country that will loose out on vital revenue. What they are trying to copy is the way the EU does things and look what a mess they are in. They Uk has something similar also. The farmers there can not compete with lower priced imports, so many have sold up,or gone bankrupt. Even though they have government subsidies. Prices in the shops will go up for home grown rice, people will not buy, they will buy the cheaper eqivalent which has been imported. This is what is happening in the UK and in other countries. Whos brainchild was this actualy? It is clear to anyone with a little bit of business sense. (I have none). That this will not work, and will create mega problems.
Discussion 8 : 03/02/2012 at 05:48 AM8
This is what happens when the country is run by remote control from Dubai who is reliant on market and political information gleaned from self serving lackeys and while dreaming of old glories.
Discussion 7 : 03/02/2012 at 05:26 AM7
Agricultural subsidy in any form is against FTA.
Discussion 6 : 03/02/2012 at 03:08 AM6
The problem with This Thai Govt seems to be a profound lack of understanding of how market mechanism work. So, instead of fixing the market, they makes it worse by interfering it with all these crappy populist stupid policies. After all, all of these nonsenses come from the same jokers who turned the dams into WMDs.
