Claims About Life Under Gaddafi: Libya's Benefits and Economy

Tell you. Under Gaddafi, Libya had no electricity bills.

Power was free for all. Loans came with zero interest,

and banks were owned by the

people. Newlyweds were gifted sixty thousand dollars to

start a life.

Education and medical treatment were completely free,

and literacy rose from

twenty-five percent to over eighty percent.

If you wanted to farm, the government gave you land, seeds,

livestock, even a house, all at no cost.

Couldn't get treatment in Libya? The government paid over two thousand

dollars and

covered travel abroad. Gasoline cost just fourteen cents per

liter.

Buy a car? The government paid half. Unemployed after graduation?

The state paid your average salary until you found a job.

Oil profits were deposited directly into citizens' bank accounts.

Mothers who gave birth received five thousand dollars.

Bread, forty loaves cost only fifteen cents,

and Libya had zero

debt with one hundred and fifty billion dollars in reserves,

now frozen

globally. Gaddafi also built the world's largest

irrigation project to bring

water to the desert. A self-reliant Africa was rising, and

that is

why he had to go.