Deputy PM Prajin confirms government’s emphasis on fighting social inequality

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Deputy PM Prajin confirms government’s emphasis on fighting social inequality

 

BANGKOK, 22nd December 2016 (NNT) - The government has confirmed its continuing emphasis on efforts to fight social inequality in Thailand. 

Deputy Prime Minister ACM Prajin Juntong said on Wednesday that the government has always been determined to solve the problem of inequality, including the issue of farmers with no land ownership, whatever the reason. 

ACM Prajin’s statement was made in a speech he was delivering to executives of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund, as well as farmers who attended the opening ceremony of the Fund’s annual event. 

The DPM said that he has personal admiration for the Fund’s committee and all involved in the ongoing process to solve the debt problems of farmers, while urging all farmers to adopt the Philosophy of a Sufficiency Economy, as proposed by HM the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej and to apply it to their way of life. 

He added that, in pursuing a sufficiency way of life, one should only take on debt in order to increase earnings, that can then be used to settle debts while managing risks and maintaining a constant flow of earnings, for instance.

 

-- nnt 2016-12-22

[jerojero]

Want to fight social inequality? Stop acting elitist and properly educate the masses.

[mtls2005]

Amazing they can keep a straight face when telling the masses what they should do: be happy barely getting by, while limiting themselves to just three Mercedes in an effort to remain "Sufficient".

[yellowboat]

"He added that, in pursuing a sufficiency way of life, one should only take on debt in order to increase earnings, that can then be used to settle debts while managing risks and maintaining a constant flow of earnings, for instance."

 

A bit preachy.  Crops fail.  Debts remain.  Perhaps some details regarding risk management, rather than speaking in generalities. 

[klauskunkel]

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 The government has confirmed its continuing emphasis on efforts to fight social inequality in Thailand. 
 

a government consisting of millionaire generals, admirals and marshals surely is most credible in such a fight. I mean, how could they possibly lose?

[elgordo38]

2 hours ago, jerojero said:

Want to fight social inequality? Stop acting elitist and properly educate the masses.

Sorry a non starter. 

[elgordo38]

11 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

a government consisting of millionaire generals, admirals and marshals surely is most credible in such a fight. I mean, how could they possibly lose?

You need actual soldiers to win a war. 

[WhizBang]

Just hot air.  All talk and no action.
 

[outsider]

Tell that to the elites.

[fxe1200]

Mr. Deputy PM Prajin should be careful, what he is saying. Lying and publishing these thoughts within the internet could be punished by applying the existent computer crime act and the defamation law.

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

fight social inequality in Thailand

Social equality is when farmers along with the rest of Thai working class have equal access to the reins of power that the military has dominated since 1932. As we have seen with previous and current coups, the military does not support that kind of fight.

[williamgeorgeallen]

1% of thais own more than half the wealth in thailand. how they going to re distribute it?

[Sunderland]

Poppycock.

[Srikcir]

22 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

1% of thais own more than half the wealth in thailand. how they going to re distribute it?

To the 1/2% of Thais?

[chainarong]

Sometimes you read these press releases and you have to admire their alter ego and you could at a pinch believe them , then you think,  Na. .........................................................

[debate101]

LOL

[ianf]

4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

a government consisting of millionaire generals, admirals and marshals surely is most credible in such a fight. I mean, how could they possibly lose?

Is that any different from any other country? Socialist government in Cambodia?? Look at Hun Sen's lifestyle and wealth? The elite in Lao? Wow! Some good socialists, eh? Trump, the right wing bigot, elected largely because of his wealth and not his brain in the USA? Putin? Mugabe? Every bleedin' country, eh?

[arrowsdawdle]

What a crock of crap. How preposterous to bald faced lie that the gov has always been determined to solve the problem of inequality. The only positive thing about this statement is the admission of inequality.

 

Sakdina supports Thai culture like the skeletal system supports the anatomy. Look it up. Sakdina prescribes that Thai culture is based on legislated, institutionalized inequality, whereby, the rich and influential take precedence in every aspect of Thai life generally, and their testimony in court proceedings outweighs the word of commoners. Have you not seen how locals duck submissively and avoid eye contact?

[arrowsdawdle]

6 hours ago, ianf said:

Is that any different from any other country? Socialist government in Cambodia?? Look at Hun Sen's lifestyle and wealth? The elite in Lao? Wow! Some good socialists, eh? Trump, the right wing bigot, elected largely because of his wealth and not his brain in the USA? Putin? Mugabe? Every bleedin' country, eh?

 

Tell us all aboat it. Must be Canadian, eh?

Edited December 22, 2016 by arrowsdawdle

[Ricardo]

The som-tam lady, fount of knowledge on all things Thai, tells me that the authorities are mulling one possible easy-solution  ..

 

...  to award the Rank of General to the Whole population !   Simples !

[Srikcir]

5 hours ago, Ricardo said:

The som-tam lady, fount of knowledge on all things Thai, tells me that the authorities are mulling one possible easy-solution  ..

 

...  to award the Rank of General to the Whole population !   Simples !

Might as well. The whole population has largely been part of the military for eight decades considering military chain of command - civilians being treated with the dignity of privates.