Wissanu denies government 'begging' for money by reaching out to tycoons

By THE NATION

 

Deputy PM Wissanu Krea-ngam

 

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Saturday clarified that the open letters the government would write to 20 of the richest Thais was not an exercise in begging for money.

 

 

His reaction came in response to criticism of some netizens, who called the administration a "beggar government".

 

On Friday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had said that he would next week write an open letter to the 20 tycoons, asking for help in efforts to tackle the pandemic.

 

Wissanu added that things will get clearer next week and it is the premier who is taking care of all the details.

 

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This is very confusing, little P, goes cap in hand to the 20 rich tycoons, then Wissanu says its not begging.

HELLO Wissanu if that is not begging, what is?

4 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

who called the administration a "beggar government".

It "beggars belief" how such numpties, called the government, can be trusted to run the country !

4 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Wissanu added that things will get clearer next week and it is the premier who is taking care of all the details.

What is clear is the Wissanu just threw the premier a hospital pass as well as throwing him under the bus.It wasn't me it was him!

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

This is very confusing, little P, goes cap in hand to the 20 rich tycoons, then Wissanu says its not begging.

HELLO Wissanu if that is not begging, what is?

 

Slow down there big guy, he's already said....

 

12 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Wissanu added that things will get clearer next week

 

So calm down, while they think up a plausible reason to BS the people with....

 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by cornishcarlos

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

This is very confusing, little P, goes cap in hand to the 20 rich tycoons, then Wissanu says its not begging.

HELLO Wissanu if that is not begging, what is?

'little P, goes cap in hand'

Given the circumstances that have caused this, he must be like a Yorkshire version of Batman then - the 'capped' crusader.

 

This whole "Give us money, we are poor and the buffalo is sick" could certainly be a lot more believable. Maybe if if the general announced he would contribute….say….one month’s worth of his own salaries, commissions, fees, incentives, service charges, management bonuses, stock options, expense accounts. miscellaneous brown envelopes,  etc, etc (maybe a few billion Baht or so) to a general relief fund. Just one month's worth of the swag, general.....just one.

 

 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Hayduke

 

About as believable a statement as:

 

"Wissanu denies he dyes his hair black"

 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Antonymous

1 minute ago, Hayduke said:

This whole thing would be more believable if the general announced he would contribute….say….one month’s worth of his own commissions, fees, incentives, retirement contributions etc (maybe a billion Baht or so) to a general relief fund.

While I'd be the last person to defend him, IIRC didn't he do something like this already?

Well he claimed he did anyway.

25 minutes ago, colinneil said:

This is very confusing, little P, goes cap in hand to the 20 rich tycoons, then Wissanu says its not begging.

HELLO Wissanu if that is not begging, what is?

It's a misunderstanding 

9 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

While I'd be the last person to defend him, IIRC didn't he do something like this already?

Well he claimed he did anyway.

 

Only his official salary, which is probably about 1/589th of his monthly swag !!

Imagine if the situation proves that funds are not there anymore? Memories of '97 itch my rear.

1 minute ago, Somtamnication said:

Imagine if the situation proves that funds are not there anymore? Memories of '97 itch my rear.

 

Wouldn't you need a transparent and independent audit for that to happen ???

9 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Imagine if the situation proves that funds are not there anymore? Memories of '97 itch my rear.

 

Wouldn't it be funny if Mr. Big changed the combination to the vault while the general wasn't looking.

 

 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Hayduke

It is the most astonishing loss of face that I could have imagined, military clowns who usurped the government in a coup admitting that they haven't a clue as to how to deal with what's happening, with Thaksin on the list of the 20 wealthiest people, leader of one of the governments that the clowns overthrew. ????

16 minutes ago, GalaxyMan said:

Thaksin

That clown wouldn't even pay tax, why would he donate?

Thanathorn, former leader of the Future Party should set up food banks across the country and shame the Government.

 

Thailand has 750 MP's and Senators, many of whom are multi millionaires, how many of them have set up food banks in the provinces that they represent?

 

MP's have raped the country of millions of dollars of the years, it's now time for them to give something back to the people and demonstrate that they care.. What they lavishly spend on a watch or LV hand bag would fund a food bank for a month..

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Forza2002

23 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

Thanathorn former leader of the Future Party should set up food banks across the country and shame the Government.

 

Thailand has 750 MP's and Senators, many of whom are multi millionaires, how many of them have set up food banks in the provinces that they represent?

 

MP's have raped the country of millions of dollars of the years, it's now time for them to give something back to the people and demonstrate that they care.. What they lavishly spend on a watch or LV hand bag would fund a food bank for a month..

Ask the top 20. 

Why not ask all the billionaire? 

Because then must ask Thanatorn family. 555555555555555

 

last year have the Ubon flood.

 

Prayut not like people ask for help.

He say “If I am rich or if Thailand is rich, I will give to them.  I do not blame them because they don’t have money,” said the Prime Minister adding, however, that it should be the responsibility of government officials.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pm-embarrassed-by-people-asking-for-cash-handouts-everywhere-he-goes/

 

 

Actor/volunteer Bin donate 1 million his money and the people trust Bin. Get 300 million+ for help the people.

 

Then Prayut recieve critism. So THEN he start same, but nobody want to give, so he pressure big company to give.

 

Then Prayut pressure Bin give the 300+ million for Prayut.

Bin refused Prayut.

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/calamity/2019/09/19/bin-banluerit-wont-pool-flood-relief-funds-with-govt/

 

Bin give 0ne million baht own money AND help rescue people 16 hour per day.

Then Prayut give 100,000 his own money. About $3,200 USD.

 

Yinn not forget.

Bin...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Yinn

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Wissanu denies government 'begging' for money

In other words: They begged for money.

 

Whenever the Thai government denies something you can be almost 100% certain that it is exactly the opposite of what they're denying.

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Yinn not forget.

Bin...

Have you any idea of just how rich and greedy these people are 

 

I suspect once they start quoting billions you are lost with zero's as like many Thais you just can't comprehend it

 

I don't know how much your hero Bin is worth but I suspect 1m baht would be like you donating a single 20bhat note relatively speaking

 

One of the problems I find with many Thais is their inability to comprehend just how rich these corrupt (deleted) really are - 6 zero's is the limit that most can understand

All these Generals retired or not retired are wealthy and collectively if they gave could be tons of Baht.. The nerve of asking the top 20. Yes it is begging. Just say 2500 generals retired and active give 10,000,000 baht each = 62,500,000,000,000 baht. I don't think there is one general out there that cannot easily afford to give the money.

 

The nerve of P!

Perhaps the pm should do 100 laps of his garden like the UK 99 yr old soilder did..

 

He has raised over 25 mill..

 

I wonder how much Prayut would get?

 

 

3 hours ago, Forza2002 said:

Thanathorn, former leader of the Future Party should set up food banks across the country and shame the Government.

If he did that they would just use it as another excuse to press criminal charges..something like 

"organising an event that contravenes social distancing" ????

He will hit a brick wall when he realises those top 20 were mostly ex prime ministers and  hi ranking gov officials

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Wissanu added that things will get clearer next week and it is the premier who is taking care of all the details.

 

Isn't that the most worrying part of the whole statement?

5 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Wouldn't you need a transparent and independent audit for that to happen ???

No need. This is the most transparent government in the world..., you can see right through them.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Saturday clarified that the open letters the government would write to 20 of the richest Thais was not an exercise in begging for money.

But, of course.

I reckon that this whole announcement was cooked up with the Billionaire community before the idea was made public.

 

They are, after all, the people that this government answer to.

 

They (government and billionaires) realise that they are looking at a very large number of desperate and hopeless people. They have bottled out off diverting the flow of cash, (or simply don't actually have the cash) to make any meaningful attempt to relieve the problem. Even if the lock-down were to be lifted at dawn tomorrow (at what monumental loss of face) it would be a couple of months before the flow of cash started to trickle in to the dispossessed, They will lift the lock-down just as soon as they can without losing face ( you must have seen the hints being dropped lately) but they still need something to cool down the situation - the "benevolent uncles" may be an attempt to do that.

It's only a big advertising show for the top 20. Give 0.1% and later gain 100%.....easy as that.

One way the government could raise money would be to cancel the bonus payments to civil servants and police that they announced last week.