Take responsibility for food price hikes
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PM Yingluck insists time and again that food prices have not increased under her watch. She even announced publicly that 11 of her ministers would personally go to the markets the following day and check on prices themselves. And, surprise, surprise! None
Ma’am, one far wiser than you said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time” (Abraham Lincoln; attributed). Thus, an Abac poll, published the same day that your ministers did their market visits, showed that 90.1 per cent of respondents felt that food prices have gone up over the past year.
Ma’am, your popularity and approval ratings are higher than ever before. Surely you can afford to tell us the truth about why prices have risen, and what you’re planning to do about it. For example, might your having bought the entire rice crop at 40 per cent over market value, and similarly subsidised other crops, have anything to do with it?
Burin Kantabutra
Bangkok
