PM triumphs on tackling tasks but why's he so keen on the 'bullet' train?
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It strikes me that the prime minister is taking far more criticism than he deserves.
For the most part, he has done a credible job of running the country, preventing violence and attempting to reorganise the basic structure of things.
He has personally addressed far more subjects than one would expect any person to be able to handle, so he is obviously well organised and efficient.
He has either backed off of or postponed any proposals that have not received popular appeal.
I am disappointed that the electoral system was glazed over but so be it.
The one thing that does have me baffled though is this business about the ‘bullet’ train. Not once has he shown any weakness to criticism of it, nor even addressed such criticism.
He resolutely moves forward with it with much like John Paul Jones and his “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” resolve.
My question is why?
In a country where the vast majority of highways are two-lane roads, which contribute to a very high accident rate, and an existing rail system that isn’t a rail system at all, but rather a point-to-point system, that’s it.
But you can’t go from A to B or C to A or D to B or anywhere for that matter. It is also in a country that has all manner of funding problems. And yet, he stands by this ‘bullet’ train project.
I have always found in my life that some of the seemingly most asinine plots you run into have a reason for them. Actually, there is a reason for everything, but if a valid one for the ‘bullet’ train exists, I haven’t heard it.
I really wish someone would explain it to me so that it makes sense, because at face value, it seems to be the poor farmer’s wife who goes out and buys a mink coat on credit.
This issue aside, I give the PM all the credit he deserves for an intrepid attempt to help the people of Thailand lead a better life.
John Arnone
Yasothon
