Eric Loh

On 7/26/2019 at 2:35 AM, RotBenz8888 said:

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Isn't there a third choice?

Between being appointed and coups,  really no other choice. Thailand is doomed to be without choice. It’s either the military elites or nothing. 

37 minutes ago, BestB said:

Well economists did say government needs to increase spending in order to boost the economy.

 

government listened and is spending ????

They will have to laundry their ill-gotten money back into the local system and spend them. Maybe they are already doing that civic duty to help the economy. ????

35 minutes ago, DLock said:

As a business owner employing over 200 Thais, I have a fair idea what a wage increase alone would do to my bottom line, and how I would recover some of the extra fixed expense, given that expense did not increase productivity, sales or revenue.

As a business owner, you do have many tools to mitigate an increase in wages. What business you in? Maybe I can offer you some suggestions.  

28 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

False.

The minimum wage went up approx. 7% last year to 325 b a day.

A 1% increase in a bowl of soup is not going to make them starve.

And the same 40 b street food I saw 3 years ago is still 40 b.

CPI don't include wage and a bowl of soup in their measurement. Maybe you can tell me how you calculate the 1% CPI increase to 1% increase in a bowl of soup. 

55 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

Just stating the obvious with a hidden agenda.... nothing new from the opposition.

It is good news and timely that the oppositions exposed the hidden agenda of this government. It has been kept hidden for the last 5 years. 

20 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

And changed sides immediately Yingluck was appointed PM! 

 

He famously ruled that she couldn't be charged with perjury, when she'd clearly lied in court, because she was only a witness not a defendant!

 

From that day on he was a Shin lackey - threatening anyone who dared criticize the Shins with his unique interpretations of laws. 

 

The issue is he clearly isn't the only one who's unusually rich but the others don't seem to have to worry. Seems he really pissed off the wrong people. 

 

 

You really think there were credibility from the coup appointed ASC charging her for perjury? Only a die-hard junta-philia will believe that. 

But I can agree with you that Tarit was changing sides for his own self interest and survival. Most rotten corrupt bureaucrats and politicians do that. Lots in the this coalition government of 19 parties.  

27 minutes ago, gamini said:

 He never got away with any corruption under Ahbisit. Then Taksin bribed him to change sides.

Unconfirmed source (just like you) that  Thaksin didn’t pay which earned his wrath by not dismissing the UDD terrorism charges. Guessed Ahbisit and Suthep’s did finally paid up and both got off the murder case against them (alleged of course like you). 

10 minutes ago, Ozman52 said:

Being the Shinawatra's tame attack dog paid very well. At least some of the wealth stolen by them is coming back to the Thai people.

He was appointed by Ahbisit.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Bt400 minimum daily wage worries SMEs, business chamber says

They should ask the labour unions. Business chamber members are all directors and senior managers with fat pay and will no way want that high salaries jeopardized by poorly paid worker demands.

He must be kicking himself for not ordering Meechai to write for a fully appointed Parliament in the constitution. Glorious to see democracy in motion with freedom of speech exercised. We finally got the truth about the coup being pre-planned as soon as Pheu Thai Party ascended to be the government. 

Prawit sleeping while the session was on was an embarrassing spectacle and the icing on the cake was when Prayut storm off like a petulant teen when confronted. We probably see the last of him in Parliament. 

He dropped the ball and couldn't conclude the EU-Thailand landmark free trade agreement while Vietnam did. So much for his touting that the government did their best for export. 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The four defendants were charged with violating Articles 113, 116, 117, 209, 210, 215, 362, 364, and 365 of the Criminal Code and with obstructing the holding of an election by the Election Commission and thus violating Articles 76, 152, and 8 of the 2007 election act. The public prosecutors filed charges against the four in the court in 2014.

wow so many articles that they ran foul of and none able to stick. Divine intervention. 

54 minutes ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Just watched it live - the man is being ridiculed all over Twitter and to be honest he is not only making an absolute fool of himself by keeping his head down bubbling away the policy statement like a five year old - but since he has to answer now to intelligent people who come up with intelligent arguments he is exposed now and comes across as a total idiot.
But the biggest disappointment for me is Speaker Chuan Leekpai who is now nothing but a junta puppet - spineless boot licker!


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He got schooled by those educated technocrats in FFP. He tried to look intelligent with toady seating next to him by shifting some papers and scribbling notes. They totally look out of place. Hilariously, sad and tragic that the country is being lead by this nincompoop. 

50 minutes ago, Ozman52 said:

By APD Writer Chen Jiabao

BANGKOK, Sep 13 (APD) -- Thailand's anti-graft agency on Wednesday said evidence is insufficient to conclude the ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is negligent in failing to to prevent great damages caused by the 2011 flooding.

 

Insufficient evidence is far from innocence. You forgot about the dumping of the dams, or don't you have that in your file of Shin exonorations?

I bow humbly to your prosecutorial skill and will love to see you pleading insufficient evidence as burden of proof to a judge. 

In any case, this case was dismissed by the NACC and there are an investigating agencies and have all the resources to obtain evidence and yet they couldn’t find sufficient evidence. You seem to have a treasure trove of Shin’s evidences which the NACC would love to get their hands on,  

6 minutes ago, Artisi said:

The party she represented might have won the election, Thai style democracy of course and appointed by the owner of the party, not elected by the people - the question remains, was /is she of any use to the country, not that the current debacle is any better. 

 

What better way than let the people judge her. 

19 minutes ago, Ozman52 said:

Oh Eric, you forget some us have a memory. Her first big act with water was to refuse to allow the dams to release water ahead of the big flood. Then after she was blamed for making the flood worse, she ordered the the dumping of the dams (for flood mitigation) just ahead of years of drought.

 

By comparison doing nothing is a godsend, because what that really means is allowing the experts to do their jobs without political interference.

You should really leave those complicated accusation to the expert.

THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission (NACC) yesterday dismissed the charges against officials including former prime ministers Abhisit Vejjajiva and Yingluck Shinawatra for alleged mismanagement which resulted in severe flooding in 2011 (Sept 2016).

16 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Yeah I do agree and it seemed to work and the farmers got a little bit of money to us it wasn't much but the farmers thought it was great and much better than plans and strategies for buying stuff or playing lottery.I think the rest of her behaviour was probably not much different from the rest of those that came before as she is Thai after all,I'm not trying to excuse her just saying the farmers feel they were better off,not even a lot but every bit counts.It may not have the intention to make the farmers happy but it did.

There were reasons as to why the rice farmers still resonate and loyal to her and her brother even now. Not patronizing both of them but that is the fact of life; life was better under them with their subsidies and health-care. Inequality and regional disparities are on the decline under post coup government. Will have to see whether this government can deliver and addressed the plight of the farmers; not only the rice farmers. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-election-farmers/in-post-coup-election-thai-rice-rubber-farmers-rethink-old-divide-idUSKCN1R20RM

3 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Your not happy, face the truth, and how many times have you deflected to totally different comments / subjects when you don't have any answer to comments thrown at you?

Be an adult and stop interjecting in my comment in response to Steven’s post. 

1 minute ago, scorecard said:

 

Corrections you say...

 

Gee I hope nobody lists the corrections needed to hundreds of your posts, many with blatantly untruthful comments, the full list would be too long to publish in one day...

 

 

Maybe you start with my current comment whether that was untrue before you start flapping your gums. 

5 minutes ago, steven100 said:

'The government has incorporated an integrated national water management plan into the country’s 10-year Strategic Plan. We will push forward the plan and make appropriate adjustments along the way.

Steven, couple of corrections. The Strategic Plan was for 20 years and only comes into effect in October 2018. Nothing was actually done from 2014 to 2018 even with his absolute power.