occupiedworld:

1. There are no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free for all of its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
3. A home is considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home…. Gaddafi’s father died while him, his wife and his mother were still living in a tent.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up a farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.
8. In Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.”

He may have been a dictator and been behind such questionable plans, but we cannot ignore what he had done for Libya.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Libya

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24763

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/libya-getting-it-right-a-revolutionary-pan-african-perspective/

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/MENAEXT/LIBYAEXTN/0„menuPK:410809~pagePK:141132~piPK:141109~theSitePK:410780,00.html

Ok my mother was discussing this last week and how it was atrocious that the locals weren’t even burying or cremating his body and leaving it to rot on the sidewalk for > 2 days or so. At the time I tried to justify it since a majority of the community were against him, have had their sons murdered by him and an attempt to bury his body would be looked upon as against the revolution’s principles (HSC belonging please go away). But now I say it’s just stupid. Every human being has the right to rest in peace respectfully 

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