PM refuses to take salary for 3 months to help anti-COVID-19 efforts

[PEE TEE]

Whatever he does or does not  do is none of our business we are not Thai and guest in the country. so we play it by ear and not get involved . Saying that I'm sure the Thai people love him as much as we do ?????  

[Boedog]

That's big of him and his bagmen, maybe they are feeling guilty.  Stop there real income which gets delivered in brown envelopes 

[Henryford]

So that's 0.5 satang for every Thai. Should make a big difference.

[Keesters]

15 hours ago, Lingba said:

he's got enough in his swiss bank account not to mention all the money sitting in his wife's and daughters names

He considers the government bank accounts his own. That's why he's been reluctant to buy vaccines. 

[spidermike007]

Huh? You do not fool any of us for a nanosecond, you scoundrel. To help alleviate their pain? Wow. 360, 000 baht. That should help end their anguish. 

 

This multi millionaire, a man who few know his true net worth (as much of it is likely hidden overseas) could donate 50 million baht and it would be like most of us buying a Filano scooter. Same applies to Anutin and an unnamed person. 

 

Yet, do they act? Do they care? Where is the moral authority here? 

 

Sorry Cha Cha, but if you wanted to convince us you cared one iota, you would have locked down the 2km. radius around the Samut seafood market back in December. And you would have locked down the construction sites, before announcing such an intention, allowing the super spreaders to fan out across the nation. And you would have locked up your immigration guys, who accepted bribes to let infected Burmese cross the border. And your feeble army would have had tens of thousands of soldiers patrolling the border for the past 16 months.

 

Your cynicism, and lack of capability knows no bounds. We know better.

Get out. Get out now. If you really cared about the nation, you would resign tomorrow. 

[bougnat]

Demogogy inexpensively, does it also give up undertables...?

[Guderian]

Well, considering the 12 billion Baht Covid assistance fund that he set up in May last year, which demanded contributions with menaces from the 12 richest people in Thailand (excluding himself and his boss, of course), I doubt that he'll miss the 400K Baht that he'll forego doing this.

[Saratoga Slim Anon]

What a poser. The sooner this cretin is in jail the better. He won't let anybody criticize his thin skin but jumps all over those democratically elected. Good riddance.

[sambum]

15 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Very noble gesture there by the P M .. no really ..

He's been looking at the trading records of the John Lewis Partnership in the UK! Their boss did the same thing with his annual bonus a few years ago. 

 

3 months salary to this man is nothing more than a drop in the ocean - he declared a net worth of 128 million baht in 2014, and you can be assured that he is worth an awful lot more now - and that is a "declared" net worth! 

[sambum]

11 hours ago, lee68 said:

The man is worth 2 billion baht in this country plus what is hidden overseas im sure he can take the hit lol!

 

Where did you get that figure from?

[sambum]

4 hours ago, scorecard said:

Action which quickly gets very large numbers of people vaccinated plus more appropriate distribution of vaccines, stop the games to get commissions etc., plus much more help for families who are on the edge of survival would be impressive.

 

So we get a big announcement 'I won't give up my salary for 3 months';

to the enormous and frightening numbers of people who are testing positive to the Covid 19 virus every day and the folks who are really struggling to feed their kids this announcement is totally meaningless and insulting.

So we get a big announcement 'I won't give up my salary for 3 months';

 

????

[sambum]

1 hour ago, PEE TEE said:

Whatever he does or does not  do is none of our business we are not Thai and guest in the country. so we play it by ear and not get involved . Saying that I'm sure the Thai people love him as much as we do ?????  

As a previous poster said a while ago:- "I am not a guest - I was not invited" 

[AhFarangJa]

Oh, how very magnanimous of him. Meanwhile he will continue to draw his military salary or pension no doubt. 360,000 ....Pathetic, a drop in the ocean to him and his cronies. How about donating the interest from the millions stashed away in Singapore and other countries.........after all, it was stolen from the average Thai in the first place.

[Plus Esse Quam Simultatur]

His salary for three months could even not pay food for the homeless in Bangkok one day.  Pathetic 

[MrJ2U]

Still Free housing at a luxurious military estate.

 

He doesn't have any expenses.  But thats the case for most leaders though.

 

He's still making a mint on useless Chinese vaccine purchases.

[dutchweller]

When you have your fat finger in every pie.

Who needs a pathetic salary..

 

[PEE TEE]

57 minutes ago, sambum said:

As a previous poster said a while ago:- "I am not a guest - I was not invited" 

Gatecrashers 555 

[jomtienisgood]

18 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Then he will be paid what he is worth!

I haven't had a salary for 18 months, so nothing left to give up; Except the hope on getting a vaccine......

[sawadee1947]

I suppose his pockets are full enough.

So 3 months without salary he will survive. ????

[Sydebolle]

120 million baht in 2019, that is the figure listed as his wealth in Wikipedia. It can be safely assumed, that it is like an iceberg ....... not as cold though. 

What a farce and I am looking forward already for when he is kicked out of office with tears in this eyes whining over his gratitude for even not collecting a salary during three months. 

Honestly, who does this impress? Too many clowns and far too few circuses! 

[jomtienisgood]

9 hours ago, smedly said:

unrivalled sacrifice 

 

how on earth will he survive, I will donate a sticky rice meal for free, I feel the pain

Don't forget the ' Som Tam' 55555555

[jacko45k]

17 minutes ago, jomtienisgood said:

I haven't had a salary for 18 months, so nothing left to give up; Except the hope on getting a vaccine......

Well good luck on both counts.

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, sambum said:

So we get a big announcement 'I won't give up my salary for 3 months';

 

????

Thanks, my mistake, apologies;  I meant to write '... I will give up my salary for 3 months'.

[johnarth]

I must have got his words wrong but I am sure he only donated one sellery not the lot or are the headlines wrong again?

 

[scorecard]

43 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

120 million baht in 2019, that is the figure listed as his wealth in Wikipedia. It can be safely assumed, that it is like an iceberg ....... not as cold though. 

What a farce and I am looking forward already for when he is kicked out of office with tears in this eyes whining over his gratitude for even not collecting a salary during three months. 

Honestly, who does this impress? Too many clowns and far too few circuses! 

Seems to me he's doing this because he is so lost and incapable with the situation that this is the only thing he can dream up.  

[malthebluff]

So 175.000 baht a month for 7 years minus living expenses so that's how he got  the  billions in the bank he declared  plus the 40 million daddy give him. Yes all seems above board

[ianwheldale]

Virtue signalling at its finest!

[cardinalblue]

Is this strategy rather than shots in arms ASAP?

[Nanaplaza666]

I think if he gives up the money he makes aside of his salary the people will be much more helped . 

[berrec]

It only highlights everything we already knew.

 

Money is the sole catalyst of everything that happens in Thailand.

 

You note no empathy in his announcement for the suffering and wellbeing of the Thai people so devastated by this pandemic. 

 

Would a better announcement not have been I and my health minister will resign immediately and allow adults to oversea the country and the shambles of a COVID vaccine program we have created and mismanaged,