For those who understand the
tremendous financial and geopolitical
forces that today are vying not so much for supremacy as they were previously, but for survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and
economic distress.
Given the
tremendous economic contribution by upwards of one million illegal Burmese migrants to the Thai economy — which was reported in 2007 to total roughly US $ 53 million (3) per year —
forcing refugees into dependence is a waste of human productivity not to mention a denigration of human rights and social well being for the population.