Kittiratt can't fool everyone
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Re: "White lies bring optimism", Letters, August 28.
Picture this: when a group of exporters invite Finance Minister Kittiratt to give a speech at their gathering, what do they expect? They expect to have the facts in a big picture that can help them make decisions correctly. Kittiratt, as finance minister, has access to the data.
The country’s business people are not like football players that you can lie to, or coax, in order to have them do what you want. Most of them are wiser than government ministers.
If Kittiratt tells them lies, his and the government’s credibility are severely damaged. And the lies don’t work anyway because these people know it even before Kittiratt realised it. Good business people have many sources of information besides the government.
One more thing: when a person in an important position tells lies, there’s nothing white or trivial about it. Everything in it is big.
Vint Chavala
Lamphun
