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Gaddafi will always be the best president

The truth behind Gaddafi. Throughout his 'reign' he has given his people free houses, free education, free water and electricity, free transport, interest free loans. Finished school and can't find a job? Don't worry, every person with an education gets a job. Less than 5% of the country was considered poor (over 17% in the UK).

Why did the media make Gaddafi appear as a mad dictator? He offered a single gold based currency to be used in Africa which would ruin the US dollar and they did not like it.

Everyone loved the man.
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Original post by AlmostNotable
The truth behind Gaddafi. Throughout his 'reign' he has given his people free houses, free education, free water and electricity, free transport, interest free loans. Finished school and can't find a job? Don't worry, every person with an education gets a job. Less than 5% of the country was considered poor (over 17% in the UK).

Why did the media make Gaddafi appear as a mad dictator? He offered a single gold based currency to be used in Africa which would ruin the US dollar and they did not like it.

Everyone loved the man.


Gadaffi had high oil production per capita and a socialist mindset, it's not a shock that he gave these things for free (i think one of the Emirates is similar in that natives pay no tax or bills), that doesn't mean they were better though and i imagine electricity and water usage was probably quite inefficient. The poverty statistic is meaningless since that's relative poverty, not absolute.

That was his proposal however i don't believe many people were really willing to commit and at any rate, it would not have broken the dollar unless a significant enough proportion of global trade would have been done with this currency. Africa is simply not yet important enough for that.
Original post by Rakas21
Gadaffi had high oil production per capita and a socialist mindset, it's not a shock that he gave these things for free (i think one of the Emirates is similar in that natives pay no tax or bills), that doesn't mean they were better though and i imagine electricity and water usage was probably quite inefficient. The poverty statistic is meaningless since that's relative poverty, not absolute.

That was his proposal however i don't believe many people were really willing to commit and at any rate, it would not have broken the dollar unless a significant enough proportion of global trade would have been done with this currency. Africa is simply not yet important enough for that.


As soon as I read 'one of the Emirates' I knew you had no clue. The poverty statistic would be meaningless if it was absolute.. Why would you compare the costs vs all countries? Where else in the world do you get free houses, weddings and guaranteed jobs?

He wanted all countries in Africa to sell their oil using this currency, which would break the US dollar. Why else would the US and Nato intervene?
His human rights record was atrocious but his ability to unite the nation was impressive. How he achieved this unification is another story.
Because the US wanted their oil and resources as well as the billions of dollars that Gaddafi had saved in US banks?

Pretty simple.
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Original post by The Warsmith
Because the US wanted their oil and resources as well as the billions of dollars that Gaddafi had saved in US banks?

Pretty simple.


That's why the US was reluctant to get involved, imported barely any oil from Libya, and went and destroyed large parts of Libyan oil infrastructure that its companies already had access to. As for the money he had saved in US banks, most of it was stolen by Gaddaffi in the first place and has since been frozen.

The perfect crime.The lunacy about Libya being invaded to stop a gold currency makes more sense than ramblings about oil.
Original post by Aj12
That's why the US was reluctant to get involved, imported barely any oil from Libya, and went and destroyed large parts of Libyan oil infrastructure that its companies already had access to. As for the money he had saved in US banks, most of it was stolen by Gaddaffi in the first place and has since been frozen.

The perfect crime.


Yeah.

Sure.
I agree, Libya has been nothing but chaos since the revolution.
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Original post by The Warsmith
Yeah.

Sure.


Strong argument there.
#controversygoals
Original post by Aj12
Strong argument there.


:facepalm:

Do you honestly believe the US haven't touched those funds given their three trillion dollar debt and the decrepit state of their economy?
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Original post by The Warsmith
:facepalm:

Do you honestly believe the US haven't touched those funds given their three trillion dollar debt and the decrepit state of their economy?


Do you honestly believe a nation with a GDP of 16 trillion and a budget of 3.8 trillion is going to steal the 37 billion dollars of assets hidden in the US? The vast majority of Gaddafi's money was hidden in Asia and the Middle East, little of it has been found. Perhaps apply a bit of sense to the situation.
Original post by Aj12
Do you honestly believe a nation with a GDP of 16 trillion and a budget of 3.8 trillion is going to steal the 37 billion dollars of assets hidden in the US? The vast majority of Gaddafi's money was hidden in Asia and the Middle East, little of it has been found. Perhaps apply a bit of sense to the situation.


I only say what I've been told repeatedly on the news.

Who can really tell? Yes, it makes sense that they wouldn't, but would you really put it past them?

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