Moebius87

I definitely agree on the success of the campaign - "zero-Songkran holiday" death campaign.

However if he claimed a "zero-death" Songkran holiday campaign... my condolences go out to the families of the 300+ fatalities as it seems that this government does not count their loss as anything of significance.

Sorry, back on topic...

I'm not an advocate of the death penalty, but the fact that it already exists here only means that the DPM is only expediting "due process".

Makes me wonder what the real agenda is here.

EvilDrSomkid, on 2012-03-22 20:00:39, said:

I do not know if you've ever lost a family member to drugs, but I can assure you that making drugs legal and more accessible won't help soften the blow. Whether you are watching a slow downward spiral to death, or going to identify a body at a morgue, the notion of having more drugs rather than less would seem a kind of evil.

sparebox2, on 2012-03-08 14:03:16, said:

Too funny.  There's just too much paranoia and imagination mixed in with conspiracy too early in the day. Thanks for a good laugh.

There is a definite lack of skilled construction workers here in Thailand... but to say that Burmese laborers repatriating back to Myanmar is going to impact that dearth is laughable.

If you are talking about bodies that hang about on a construction site and move stuff from point A to point B, you're absolutely right that there will be less of that going on. Those people just take up space and pretend to get things done. But, if you are talking about skilled and experienced construction tradesmen... we don't really have much of those people to begin with in the first place.

Not the fault of either the Thais, nor their cousins from across the borders - more about a lack of real vocational skills training in my humble opinion.  I think folks should be careful of how the term "construction worker" is defined before raising any panic alarms... or other people start jacking up costs due to an exaggerated labor shortage.