Megaprojects and megadebt: the debate continues

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Chatchart: People support megaprojects

Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 16.04
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Ninety-one percent of the people who visited an exhibition on the government's planned megaprojects support the 2-trillion-baht spending programme, according to Transport Minister Chatchart Sithipan.

Transport Minister Chatchart Sithipan says many people support the government's the 2-trillion-baht spending programme. (Bangkok Post File Photo)

In addition, 95% of the visitors said they were satisfied by the information provided about the government's long-term development projects, he said on Saturday.

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banmebkk
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Discussion 13 : 18 Mar 2013 at 16.0913
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How to they even enforce "corruption free bidding" when billions are taken out before they have a plan or before bidding even starts. Ask the visitors how Thailand is going to cope with the debt, how thailand is going to fund it? Or better yet explain how the government plans to offset the mounting debt? I bet you the government has no plans yet until they get smack in the face.
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Discussion 12 : 18 Mar 2013 at 12.5812
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95% of the real Thais, those farmers, servants,street vendors,SMEs,
in other words those who labor every day, ( 12 to 14 hours ),did not attend so those, ( money, good short time hours, politicians, executives ),who did attend,only represent 2 to 3% of the "REAL" Thai population.
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Discussion 11 : 17 Mar 2013 at 11.4111
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I've never seen any politician, no matter how good people believe he or she is, telling 100% truth to the public. The hot issue of the Pheu Thai Party-led governments megaproject is no exception!
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Discussion 10 : 17 Mar 2013 at 11.4010
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I've never seen any politician, no matter how good people believe he or she is, telling 100% truth to the public. The hot issue of the Pheu Thai Party-led governments megaproject is no exception!
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Discussion 9 : 17 Mar 2013 at 10.389
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@onlyasking, d8.

I don't think any country has ever made a HST to transport goods. People care if the trip takes 5 or 10 hours, goods don't care, and goods spend most of their time waiting at terminals anyway. Secondly goods transport would be alot morte expensive on a HST. I guarantee you that you will not be seeing a HST full of containers, not even in Thailand.
It makes no sense for Laos to make a HST as noone there can afford it either. Are you sure it is not really China making it, using Laos as as a transit country only? China, Singapore and to some extend Malaysia have a different demographic to Thailand, so HST makes more sense th
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Discussion 8 : 17 Mar 2013 at 10.018
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The high speed trains (HST) primary goal is to transport goods not passengers. By introducing the HST the logistical cost for Thai exporters can be reduced. The HST will not replace the existing rail system and passengers will have a choice between slow trains and high speed trains. If the HST are such a bad idea why have Lao and China and Singapore and Malaysia already signed their deals to implement their connecting high speed train systems?
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Discussion 7 : 17 Mar 2013 at 03.167
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Has there ever in the history of Democracy been resistance to broad-based spending programs? Hav there ever been politicians who didn't love to spend?

The issue is NOT "support" or the lack thereof.

It should be *assumed* at all times that people want to see money spent on their behalf, that politicians want to spend money, and that broad-based stimulus programs will be "popular". It should *also* be assumed however, that the downside consequences of these programs will be conveniently overlooked in favor of greed, short-term thinking and irresponsible pandering to the electorate.
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Discussion 6 : 16 Mar 2013 at 20.196
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Take measures to support transparency,any idea what the may be anyone.
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Discussion 5 : 16 Mar 2013 at 18.435
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I think 95% is another # someone puled out of a round brown hole....I do not believe you could get 95% of people to agree on anything...then again Kittiratt has always been good with #'s 555555
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Discussion 4 : 16 Mar 2013 at 18.154
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Mega projects can be a good thing when they are planned well transparent and practical . Japan didn't want to invest in Dawai because the plan was Japan handed over a pile of money and then Thailand spend it .There was no real plan beyond that .That,s nice putting a power point together but it doesn't explain the billions of baht that will disappear in corruption .
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