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3 hours ago, Matzzon said:Might be, but it can also be that they found out he was diabetic after he was dead. It is Sanook stating that it was known he suffered from diabetes, which might be something they digged up after. In that case, if the man had his belongings taken away from him and never opened his mouth about any diabetes or a need for medication. In that case you can´t blame immigration either.
Yes, you can!
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48 minutes ago, Sunderland said:
What a thoroughly revolting man.
You mean the Chinese "President for Life"?
Because he gives no permission.
For the Chinese it is a question of FACE......
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1 hour ago, Stocky said:"Don't Panic, Go Shopping"
It really is unbelievable.
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22 hours ago, cmarshall said:
I'll bet it's a lot closer to 50k foreigners. The 38 million tourist visits as a whole contribute between 6% and 10% of GDP. No way the expats amount to half that.
The number of foreign expats living in Thailand is somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000.
On average each foreign expat brings 50,000 Baht per month into the country.
If 400,000 do this, that would mean a total of 240,000,000,000 Baht.
Plus 2.7 jobs per farang, plus investment in houses, cars, motorbikes etc.
All this spent in the local economy and slowly reaching big companies, also employing people.
Rather more as the OP states.
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21 hours ago, saengd said:
In that example Fon would just go to Pattaya and get 1,000 baht each from ten tourists, job done.
But where have all the tourists gone?
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18 hours ago, Hayduke said:
Fewer tourists? No problem...just raise the rates for hotels, goods, and services to make up the difference.
And crank up immigrations rules and razzias.
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On 1/22/2020 at 12:52 PM, JustAnotherHun said:
Look at the street, dumbhead.
Maybe he never drove a motorbike before. Plenty of old farang here tumbling around on ther Honda Waves without having a DL.
But as always: The Thais are to blame.
Oh, come on, maybe the man had a driving license, maybe a steel plate over a hole in the road without any signs is a very bad idea, maybe yes, the Thais are to blame?
How are things done in JustAnotherHun country, then?
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3 hours ago, anterian said:
Thai government always catches the minnows never the sharks.
That Sir, is a worldwide occurence.
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10 hours ago, Cryingdick said:It's like a frog in a boiling pot. How on God's green earth does somebody sit around for 4 or 5 decades and then suddenly realize they haven't prepared for retirement?
The economic refugees also compound the problem as now they are a government expense and do not pay the taxes or contribute to their homeland. If you do personally I am not aiming this at you. I am talking about people who live solely off of government entitlements, never visit their home country, and have no other income source, except maybe a small savings.
I can only speak for the situation in the USA but I feel that when you ditch America your SS should be cut. Living abroad is a privilege and a personal choice.
When pension schemes were thought up to give people basic security people weren't flying around the world. The money spent abroad doesn't feed the economy back home and creates a burden for the next generation who will not be lucky enough to receive benefits at the same age or if ever.
Government schemes are meant to aid retirement. Anybody in their right mind has separate investments to achieve a more comfortable retirement.
I just can't imagine sitting around for 40 or 50 years and then wake up one morning and conclude I had better move to Bulgaria. Do they not have retirement planners over there?
That's the problem. People think the government will take care of them and give it no more thought. When the government fails to provide anything other than the most basic existence they are in disbelief.
This is nothing more than an equation. When you put the minimum in you get the minimum out. Oh, and don't assume the gubernment got your back with all dem entitlements.
Oh, but people in Europe do prepare for retirement, by paying premiums for pension funds, the problem is the government is stealing from these pension funds leaving the pensioners with not enough.
For example, my pension fund has doubled it's funds since 2008 and makes an annual growth of 6%, besides receiving paid in premiums.
The government has decided, probably, to bring the pensioners to poverty by forbidding the pension funds to index the pensions.
Because prices, rents, taxes go up, the pensioners get poorer.
Now, the pension funds have so much money they could easily index the pensions, but are not allowed to do so because of government rules.
My pension fund, for example, has so much money it could easily pay and index for the next thirty years even if no premiums come in or would there be any profit on investments.
Same thing in many other countries in Europe.
And the EU is very interested in this capital, which is frightening.
The capital? 1500 billion Euro.
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3 hours ago, daveAustin said:Of course they won't. PC reigns. They'd sooner boot out a Briton with connections with Ethelred.
For the record, Verhofstadt is a ****!
I absolutely, completely agree with your last statement.
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17 hours ago, DrTuner said:
Good, bring it on.
Who is paying for this clash?
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12 hours ago, ukrules said:He never should have been arrested in the first place. It just shows how backwards and corrupt this place is.
Where is all his money and who owns his property/vehicles now?
The backwardness was indeed with the Dutch prosecutor who could not make a case and decided to let the Thai courts do it for them.
The Dutch are at fault and can expect a big compensation case.
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2 hours ago, Muzarella said:
The reality is that the World is ruled by a Clown..and its will be re-elected just because its a Good Clown easy to be manipulated by the real rulers, the World´s Big Bankers and Corporations and the US Military. Good luck!
Like his predecessor?
Who brought danger to the world on a grand scale and paid the crazy ayatollahs huge amounts of cash to further their goals.
And of course, it is money that governs the world, not the people.
It has always been so, and will always be so, the only influence of the people, anywhere in the world, is purely cosmetic.
Blaming the current president is rather stupid, he is just a sideshow for the big money.
Like those who went before him.
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7 hours ago, pegman said:
As the Thai economy tanks these protests will ramp up.
Yes, probably.
Anyway, these people want to exchange the current government by a new government lead by a guy who bought a political party, and declared he does this for the people........
What is so difficult to understand, politicians go into politics for money and power.
If the politician has plenty of money, then it is power he seeks.
Why?
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3 hours ago, Matzzon said:
So, the problem is that it´s to easy to buy silencers. Naturally, everybody knows it´s the silencer that kills and not the gun.
I think it is people that kill.......
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11 minutes ago, legend49 said:
“We believe that the shop was being used to run a sex business.”
No it was a testing laboratory for condoms.
Memo to would be massage parlour exploiters, as used condoms get you arrested, don't use condoms....
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3 hours ago, Matzzon said:
So, the problem is that it´s to easy to buy silencers. Naturally, everybody knows it´s the silencer that kills and not the gun.
So easy to make one yourself.
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1 hour ago, petermik said:Simply untrue....T.A.T figures confirm tourism is on the increase with big spending Indians arriving in their droves
Thailand should understan Chinese visit once, maybe twice, and the go somewhere else.
And as most Chinese think China is the best, they will never leave China.
Or are not allowed to.
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On 1/7/2020 at 12:21 PM, lordblackader said:
The baht has appreciated by 20-25% against some currencies and yet the price of imported goods from those countries hasn't moved - this guy thinks big Thai companies really give a <deleted>? The same companies that back the ruling junta - that's all you need to know about crony capitalism in the LoS.
The same big companies that supported the former governments, all of them?
You really think the TS governments were interested in the people, if only for their votes?
Where did you ever get the misguided idea governments, anywhere in the world, will do something for the general poorer people besides some cosmetics?
Wake up!
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3 hours ago, zydeco said:
Probably posted the truth. And that can't be allowed in China. Another SARS like outbreak to complement the Hogholocaust. They are definitely doing something wrong in China.
Anything for money, maybe?
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3 hours ago, bendejo said:
A floating collection plate. He'd better be wary of the local preachers who don't like visitors cutting in on their gettin'.
May one wonder if the local "authority" would also want, or dared, to sent the ship away if it was a mosque?
Do t think so.
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23 hours ago, RotMahKid said:
Let's do the same with Thai People! Thailand is not going to discriminate foreigners right? Oops they already do!
I say, why he doesn't put a sign in the entrance with "No foreigners allowed to enter" and see what that will do to his sales.
I guess his shop will have to close soon.
If he hates foreigners, dont want to sell to them, way to go.
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On 12/27/2019 at 11:45 AM, ToYoungToRetire said:
Newyork less than 10000 years ago was covered in a Glacier a scamile thick.
Global climate change is real, Humans causing it is a laugh.
So is that little irritating Scandinavian gnome.
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5 hours ago, Creasy said:
Only the ordinary Thai will suffer during a economic downturn.
The 1% are filthy rich and their servants in parliament aren’t short of a baht either.
You think it is any different in your own country?
Don't think so.
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Rabbis call for removal of church at Auschwitz
in World News
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That was tried several times, but never was allowed.