the Bear SG so... not content with screwing the world, the IMF screws their own employees too btw, the delegates who came.. i dunno.. it's like a vacation for a lot of them...
Fatum SG hmmmm .... I guess it's a case of the ones from the rich countries having better shopping at home, and the poor ones not being able to afford it ? ..
sbst275 SG Seriously, I dun think so... The most are the delegates spouses Our public transportation is lousy and somemore have SBS buses do IMF Hotel Shuttles at 10 mins frequency which ended up bus bo lang except the driver
elindra SG Yeah and she did mention the air-tickets here to SG was more than her pay @@ or was it half her pay or something
sbst275 SG They said they've nothing to do w/ the Thai's political turnoil or sort And they insist the deal was legal Now I remember what happened to GIC at Sth Korea
the Bear SG yeah.. they may have nothing to do with the coup.. but they would have been a catalyst.. which has nothing to do with reactions, but speed things up thaksin.. i dunno... i think he's a politician... like the idiots in the US.. nothing is too low or dirty for him to do...
sbst275 SG My reply on the new page But I suspect they controlled Shin Corp thru the same method used by GIC for the South Korea property deal... Though it's considered legal, but end up the parent is the same
Fatum SG his mistake was learning from lee junior .... I remember a bangkok post write up about a thaksin cabinet meeting, he was snapping and dispensing orders at his ministers like a CEO .. but he certainly did a lot for the poor in Thailand ... no other country in south-east asia has come close to his universal 30 baht health care ...
the Bear SG there was a writeup in some economic programme once.. seems like the universal health care ended up the doctors were severely overworked and the hospitals were overrun with patients.. they advocated increasing the price.. i'm thinking, what the hell is wrong with the economists? people must come first.. what they needed to do was to increase the number of doctors and hospital capacity.. for the people... sometimes i wonder about economists... people are just like a commodity and a statistic to them.. they have lost their humanity somewhere along the line
the Bear SG he did not go soft.. he just forgot that there are people there who are not terrorists...
sbst275 SG But those fellows, you go hard on them, they will become more troublesome The South have simply been neglected, that's why all the prob came
Fatum SG after three years of studying economics, I can safely say I don't know a rabbit's turd about eonomics, and economists don't know turd about society ...
the Bear SG go and ask lah.. in other news, it's started to rain here around the clementi area. heavy rain too..
