Govt. To Launch Sufficiency Economic Project On Mar 26

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I think they will change the logo of NBT.

They changed from red to purple (not blue like you see in the photo). Here in Thailand purple is gay color.

This change costs about 50,000 to 100,000 Baht. How can they still have face to teach poor people sufficient economy?

Interesting.

In Europe being 'Born to the Purple" meant you were royalty.

Only Kings, Queens, Princes and sometimes Archbishops

were ever allowed to wear Purple robes

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To me, being Self-Sufficient is important. There are millions of people in this country, who are haunted by loan sharks on a daily basis. (20% interest per month, in most cases). Money that most of them can never pay back completely. Why, because they are buying on credit.

Almost every little hut in Issan and elsewhere in Thailand, has a TV with images of wealth bombarding it's watchers. Now they all want, what (they think) everyone in the West has.

I think one of the biggest problem to attack in Thailand, before the Suffiency Economy can work, is the money lenders. This can be done in several parts....

1. Teach people to live within their means and not borrow money

2. Have a major crackdown on money lenders

3. Help the poor, to initially get back on their feet and out of the endless cycle of borrowing and owing

4. Have efficient government programs for distaster relief, droughts, etc., protecting the hard working farmers.

Most people would't be able (me included) to buy a house, a car or start a business without borrowing money. The problem is not to borrow money but to borrow in a responsible manner.

Which is NOT ruled out in the SE protocols

[samgrowth]

Suffiency Economy rule number one.

Ban Johnny Red, and everyone should drink Johhny Gold (or yellow) instead.

Or is it the other way round? I am too drunk to tell the difference anyway.

[sriracha john]

I am too drunk

Honesty is the best policy. Thank you.

[chrislarsson]

You can't blame politicians for playing politics, nor for showing a healthy dose of hypocrisy. Only the corrupt and immoral get to the top. Lying and acting are pre-requisites for the political class. What matters to all of us, is that people are able to survive a crisis, with the minimum upheaval both on a personal and national level.

The Capitalist consumptive model is unsustainable. The debt-based fiat money system is also unsustainable. At some point they will collapse, not least driven by the insane greed of the Wall St and banking criminal syndicates. You can't be having the nation's wealth transferred to China in place of cheap plastic goods ad infinitum, without producing anything of value yourself, as the Western World is discovering. Farmers will be the only ones who won't starve when all the supermarket shelves are empty. That is, if Monsanto and their like, will let them have the seed. Local bio-diversity is being wiped out and soils are being de-natured by artificial chemicals and the 'competition is a sin' corporate ethic. Control of the World's food supply is just one aspect of the policy of 'Full Spectrum Dominance' being conducted by Multi-National corporations and the self-appointed Masters of The Universe.

Unless sustainable models are supported, people are going to starve. It doesn't take a bent politician to point this out. We had a taste of what's possible when the boom and bust merchants jacked up the price of oil so they could unload their stock onto 'bagholders'. Nations came close to starvation as food prices shot up.

I'm all for the Royals supporting self-sufficiency or sustainability or self-restraint in any form. It's not some wishy-washy philosophical concept but a matter of survival. If there is a war between the racketeers running the White House and the rest of humanity then food, gas, electricity will be in short supply and the shelves could clear overnight. One would hope that Thailand is better placed than others with it's reduced exposure to toxic derivatives and it's ability to produce food. However, if hoarding were to occur, people in the cities could starve.

Perhaps the King knows something the rest of us don't.

The idea that everybody should produce their own food to be self-sufficient is a communist idea. We all know the result.

If ppl in Bangkok wants to go out in the country and live on $1 a day, that's fine, but don't propose that it is a good choice for others. Especially not if you sit in a Mercedes.