ikke1959

The army and elite will never accept a Government of the common people....In a next election and they have the majority ,,, the army will stage a coup again.. just to keep in power...Sadly situation for Thailand as there is more needed to stop these coups

Watermanagement in Thailand is not the best.. Songkran, ....spill water, water for watering against dust, or taps not closed and water is running away useless...Water over roofs to cool down and just name it.. They spill water and now they complain... Maybe start with good education about water usage, in schools on TV etc etc... Make people aware that water is needed instead of being spilled

And how many are doing it that nobody knows?? massage salons etc...... I think the number is much higher

I am wondering why it is unlawful to make people available for elections?? O yeah in Thailand only the friends of those in  power are entitled to run for senators... That is Thai Democracy

Thai Democracy is not for the people only for the super rich and the ones in the Government.. All others as we have seen many times will be locked up and silenced.. Human Rights as a part of the democracy are unknown... Thailand pretends they do everything, but even refugees from Myanmar are being sent back as reason they are entering Thailand illegally without a visa...Minors in jail for freedom of speech, etc .. They have no shame

37 minutes ago, pomchop said:

I have been told several times that cops are paid very poorly but the system allows them to accept bribes etc to compensate them for the low pay so the top brass look the other way as they are also in on the food chain.....without this system nobody would want a job as a cop.....true or not i do not know but it sure seems that way.

I believe that everybody wants to be a cop... When I asked my students what they want to be the boys always say police man, and when I asked why they no work and a lot of money.... 

Only one solution is that there must be enforcement of the laws, and therefor you need a working policeforce... Unfortunately both are missing in THailand

Thailand is a  good country to retire... With not a huge income you can live here normally. Indeed the rules of 800k in a bankaccount or an income of 65k are compared with the Thai huge, but with a normal Western pension it must be possible to comply to the rules. But there is anothe rproblem that nobody seems to see. In my country there are a lot of retired people who work as a volunteer, helping people and organizations as these people have time and are very happy they can contribute something to the society. Here in Thailand it is impossible to do this. Volunteer work needs a workpermit and a workpermit will only be given if the job can't be done by a Thai. So it means that in fact as a retired person you are not allowed to do anything than go out for eating, sex, on holiday, but after that sit at home and watch your garden, while a lot of people want to give a hand, helping people, or animals or organizations,  free of any payment same as in their homecountry. That is why I always want that the conservative labour laws are being changed. In a previous post some weeks ago, a person asked why I stopped working as I wanted to do something. But I think he was Thai as people don't understand the difference between real work and voluntarily jobs. 

It doesn't seems a lot.. Probably a lot of money went in spending/buying/borrow watches from a dead friend....Besides that.. who know what relatives/ or other friends are keeping for him.. The more money the bigger crooks