The US, NATO and the UN have been and are in the business of destroying nations.
Libya had sustained more then 10 years of crushing sanctions and still managed to improve the quality of life for Libyans by magnitudes with free health care, free school th...rough all college levels, interest-free loans, yearly stipends related to an enormous (30 billion dollar) trade surplus, one of the lowest crime rates and lowest homeless rates in Africa with free housing for all Libyans. Indeed, their overall civilian incarceration rate for crime, as compared to that of the US, is nearly non-existent.
FREE Health Care:
When the needed care wasn't available in Libya the Libyan citizens were afforded transportation and certain expenses to receive care elsewhere, for example Saudi Arabia or Egypt among other countries.
IMAGINE what totally free health care for all people could be like if it were run properly.
FREE School:
Libya provided free school, plus assistance with related costs from early education through advanced pursuits such as a Masters Degree or a PhD.
IMAGINE what totally free schooling could have meant for each of us had we had a properly managed unbiased public school system that taught the truth.
FREE Loans:
Libya provided interest-free loans to qualifying citizens for up to 200,000 dollars US. As a 23 year-old, with a small loan, I could have pursued my interest in building 40-55 foot sail boats.
IMAGINE what an interest-free loan would mean for the economy if civilians had all of the interest they paid to banks yearly to instead spend into the economy.
FREE Yearly Stipends:
Based on a 30 billion dollar yearly trade surplus that amounts to between 5,000 and 7,500 dollars per person minus distribution expenses and while this was never done it was being considered and the population had benefited previously from 500 dollar US yearly stipends.
NO HOMELESS:
Means the 100 or so laws passed to deal with homelessness from loitering to trespassing and homeless specific laws such as sleeping in parks or on park benches would be needless and you or I could feel free to sleep in the park if we wanted to.
CRIME-FREE
With 9 executions in 2010 and 9,763 total prisoners (27% foreigners) and 62.6% of those are pre-trial detainees Libya was one of the worlds safest nations. I like to examine "Crude Death Rate" because this is a death rate that includes everything. Random murders, diseases, old age and everything else. The Crude Death Rate in the US is 8.25 per 1,000 people, slightly less then the 8.90 for Bosnia-Herzogovina or not much less then the 8.00 rate in Puerto Rico. Libya comes in at 4.06 which is at the top of the list. There are 195 countries listed. Libya is No. 10. The US is No. 101.
Our population is 60 times that of Libya. Do we have 60 times the number of people incarcerated? To have 60 times the number of people incarcerated as Libya does we would have to have 585,780 people in prison but we don't. We have two million prisoners. That's almost 240 times as many prisoners with 60 times the population. An interesting statistic.
FREE Housing:
Libyans were all afforded the option of participating in a free housing program operated by the government. I can't imagine the US government even entertaining such a thing.
In spite of immensely frustrating and crippling sanctions Libya became water and food independent with both clean and chemical-free water and GMO free foods. Gaddafi was entertaining sharing that 30 billion dollar yearly trade surplus with the civilian population.
Gaddafi was calling for a return to a gold backed economy and the use of a gold backed African/Middle Eastern Dinar. The dinar would eventually replace the dollar as the global currency of choice for petroleum purchases.
Libya is being punished for creating a social structure FAR BETTER then the one we have here in the US, a banking structure FAR BETTER then what we have here in the US and for threatening to show the US civilian population that there are other ways and they're often better and Libya did so under severe western sanctions.
A careful, true, honest examination of Libya for the last 40 years makes this abundantly clear.
IMAGINE where Libya would be today had there been no sanctions at all.
Libya had sustained more then 10 years of crushing sanctions and still managed to improve the quality of life for Libyans by magnitudes with free health care, free school th...rough all college levels, interest-free loans, yearly stipends related to an enormous (30 billion dollar) trade surplus, one of the lowest crime rates and lowest homeless rates in Africa with free housing for all Libyans. Indeed, their overall civilian incarceration rate for crime, as compared to that of the US, is nearly non-existent.
FREE Health Care:
When the needed care wasn't available in Libya the Libyan citizens were afforded transportation and certain expenses to receive care elsewhere, for example Saudi Arabia or Egypt among other countries.
IMAGINE what totally free health care for all people could be like if it were run properly.
FREE School:
Libya provided free school, plus assistance with related costs from early education through advanced pursuits such as a Masters Degree or a PhD.
IMAGINE what totally free schooling could have meant for each of us had we had a properly managed unbiased public school system that taught the truth.
FREE Loans:
Libya provided interest-free loans to qualifying citizens for up to 200,000 dollars US. As a 23 year-old, with a small loan, I could have pursued my interest in building 40-55 foot sail boats.
IMAGINE what an interest-free loan would mean for the economy if civilians had all of the interest they paid to banks yearly to instead spend into the economy.
FREE Yearly Stipends:
Based on a 30 billion dollar yearly trade surplus that amounts to between 5,000 and 7,500 dollars per person minus distribution expenses and while this was never done it was being considered and the population had benefited previously from 500 dollar US yearly stipends.
NO HOMELESS:
Means the 100 or so laws passed to deal with homelessness from loitering to trespassing and homeless specific laws such as sleeping in parks or on park benches would be needless and you or I could feel free to sleep in the park if we wanted to.
CRIME-FREE
With 9 executions in 2010 and 9,763 total prisoners (27% foreigners) and 62.6% of those are pre-trial detainees Libya was one of the worlds safest nations. I like to examine "Crude Death Rate" because this is a death rate that includes everything. Random murders, diseases, old age and everything else. The Crude Death Rate in the US is 8.25 per 1,000 people, slightly less then the 8.90 for Bosnia-Herzogovina or not much less then the 8.00 rate in Puerto Rico. Libya comes in at 4.06 which is at the top of the list. There are 195 countries listed. Libya is No. 10. The US is No. 101.
Our population is 60 times that of Libya. Do we have 60 times the number of people incarcerated? To have 60 times the number of people incarcerated as Libya does we would have to have 585,780 people in prison but we don't. We have two million prisoners. That's almost 240 times as many prisoners with 60 times the population. An interesting statistic.
FREE Housing:
Libyans were all afforded the option of participating in a free housing program operated by the government. I can't imagine the US government even entertaining such a thing.
In spite of immensely frustrating and crippling sanctions Libya became water and food independent with both clean and chemical-free water and GMO free foods. Gaddafi was entertaining sharing that 30 billion dollar yearly trade surplus with the civilian population.
Gaddafi was calling for a return to a gold backed economy and the use of a gold backed African/Middle Eastern Dinar. The dinar would eventually replace the dollar as the global currency of choice for petroleum purchases.
Libya is being punished for creating a social structure FAR BETTER then the one we have here in the US, a banking structure FAR BETTER then what we have here in the US and for threatening to show the US civilian population that there are other ways and they're often better and Libya did so under severe western sanctions.
A careful, true, honest examination of Libya for the last 40 years makes this abundantly clear.
IMAGINE where Libya would be today had there been no sanctions at all.
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