A front-page article in Monday's New York <i>Times</i> quotes
Prayuth Chan-ocha, the general who currently rules Thailand, and who
declared a net worth of $4 million (nearly half in cash) on an
annual army salary of $40,000, as saying in a televised speech, "Do
not judge people based on your perceptions."<br>
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This seems laughable but, unfortunately, it is not. Every day in the
United States hundreds, if not thousands, of local government