The great Taksin with the anger in his eyes
and the fire in his nostrils, doth sayeth upon the bars in the Kingdom of the land of smiles.....
For it is not 2 oclock,
Not the 1 oclock
but the 12 oclock,
12 shall be the number that closive the bars in the land of the smiles,
And so the bar owner-ites, the sex tour-ites and the TukTuk-ites was much angered saying....
"for Taksin has smitten us"
And the gogo and bar girls was crying,
The sextour-ites do not come....
"Who will buy the boyfriend the new motorbike"
and the mother a new television [must be plasma]
"and the buffalo need-eth the sex change"
For no more shall we see the man on the street corner of Patpong, offering the relaxing massage for the sum of 10000 Thai Bhat.
And no more shall we see the obese lezbian backpacker, look with disgust at the middle aged fat balding man holding hands with the cute 20 year old
and so forth

Well said, I think thaksin is trying to ruin the LOS economy. LOS without tourism is like Vegas without gambling.
cheers
kj

(Message edited by kjvegas on July 10, 2004)

Thaksin does not give a shit about Thailand's economy. He talks about helping the poor and the farmers, but that is just kee kwai(buffalo shit) to get himself re-elected !The BKK Post had and article written by a leading Thai economist that pointed out that Thaksin's own companies and those of his relatives and friends had profited enormously since he had become PM. It outstripped the growth in general Thai economy by 20-30 fold at least. He was the richest man in Thailand before he was elected. Now he is in the untouchable economic range.

He is all about the baht---He wants to make them all HIS !!