
To wit, match Muammar Gaddafi’s record up against that of your favorite candidate:
• Gaddafi
nationalized his nation’s oil reserves and used the revenue to build schools, universities, hospitals, and infrastructure.
• Money from Libya’s oil revenue is
deposited into the bank account of
every citizen.
• He raised
the literacy rate from 20 per cent to 83 per cent.
• He built
one of the finest health care systems in the “Third World.”
All people have access
to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines—free of charge. If a Libyan needs surgery that is unavailable in Libya, funding is provided for the surgery overseas.

• He raised the life expectancy
from 44 to 75 years of age.
•
Basic food items were subsidized and electricity was made available throughout the country.
• He developed
huge irrigation projects in order to support a drive towards
agricultural development and food self-sufficiency.
• Recognizing that
water, not oil, would be the scarcest resource of the future, Gaddafi initiated the construction of the
Great Man Made River, which took years to complete.
• Referred to as a wonder of the modern world, this river pumps millions of gallons of water daily
from the heart of the Sahara desert to the coast, where the land is suitable for agriculture.

• Any Libyan who wanted to become
a farmer was and still
is given free use of land, a house, farm equipment, livestock and seed.
• Gaddafi vowed that his own parents, who lived in a tent in the desert,would not be housed until every Libyan was housed.
He fulfilled that promise.