With Qhadhafi gone the people can start paying for their own education (College has been free for a generation), start paying for their own healthcare ( It was free under Ghadaffi), forget about any kind of welfare and can forget about being one of the few nations in Africa that was at least somewhat stable.
"I love the people, all the people," he proclaimed in a 1986 interview with a French television newscaster published in Jeune Afrique. "I would like the people to vanquish the government, the armies, the police, the parties, and the parliaments," he said in explanation of his notion of direct democracy in which people rule themselves without the mediation of traditional governmental institutions. "I am the prophet of the revolution and not the prophet of Allah," Qadhafi declared in the same interview.
By all accounts, the Qadhafi regime has succeeded to an impressive degree in fulfilling basic human material needs. Libya has also been relatively successful in achieving economic egalitarianism. To Qadhafi, such equality entails abolishing the conventional employer-employee relationship. Wage labor is regarded as a form of slavery. Similarly, to prevent landlord-tenant relationships, no person may own more than one house. Furthermore, because domestic servants are considered "a type of slave," the residents of a house should perform their own household work. To achieve economic justice, the slogans of "partners, not wage-earners" and "those who produce, consume" have been proclaimed and, to a significant degree, established.
Of course everyone in the USA just believes what the media tells them. Qhadhafi is a terrible man who is killing his own citizens by the millions, a eccentric tyrannical overlord who is beset with bouts of blood lust and greed.
Of course.
Gold had nothing to do with it either. Sure.
