and also the CIA page says 30%...Who to believe?? well I suggest you hear from Libyans who lived there and know roughly how many people do have a job. I mean at least in their own social circles. I was there in November and I know that there are MANY who either dont have a job or are terribly under employed.
Unless they count an engineer who is working as a secretary and getting paid 200 bucks a month is a job or a teacher who teaches at a high school and gets paid $250 is a job. Prices in Libya are comparable to those in North America with exception of things like prices of gas and bread. I am from Tripoli and my family lives there so im not coming up with this stuff
Well if the money the country generated from oil revenues...etc was at least used to build a good infrastructure for Libya then maybe people would have had to spend large sums of money to get treated for their more serious health problem as they had to travel to Tunisia or even Egypt for a better healthcare. I am not implying that minor health problems can be treated at government hospitals because most people go to private clinics so that they dont end up misdiagnosed or even killed by the mistakes and lack of proper care at public hospitals.
Remember that 400 kids have been injected with HIV in 1999 in Benghazi? Can you trust to take your child to such hospitals?
Gaddafi had stowed away more than $150 BILLION when many Libyans were struggling to make end meet, with salaries as low as $250 a month.
I didnt know that che was quoted, what was the quote and WHO said it?
@Jim and Ben Hunter, Could you please expand more on how terrible the protesters (i.e revolutionaries/majority of libyan) are, and could you please support your arguments? Because to my knowledge they are people who have decided to stand up for their freedom and their rights and that they have had enough of the oppression that Gaddafi's family and their thugs practiced on them.
These are professionals and well educated people who have peacefully protested for their rights only to be faced with bullets to their heads, necks and chests. This in turn turned the whole thing into a fight for freedom (I couldn't see any other way, especially since the other option was death like we now see in Misrata).
We all know Gaddafi and his long history of supporting terrorism. Not only brutally murdering Libyans over the past 42 years but the innocent all over the world in almost every continent. Some of those terrorist acts were fully executed by his thugs or through groups that he supported with financials means as well as with weapons.
Terrorist acts are the same regardless of where they happen and who executes them. Killing innocent civilians is WRONG and that is what Gaddafi is doing not the protesters.
Libyans peaceful people and dont like what is going on, but what is the other option? death? what about the future generations?. A prove on how peaceful and loving the people of Libya are, is that Gaddafi had to hire mercenaries to kill those who decided to rise against him.
I hope I clarified somethings to you and others who may read this
Well I can also say that according to Reuters, it's 30% http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/11/01/EM_EGYPT0111.swf
and also the CIA page says 30%...Who to believe?? well I suggest you hear from Libyans who lived there and know roughly how many people do have a job. I mean at least in their own social circles. I was there in November and I know that there are MANY who either dont have a job or are terribly under employed.
Unless they count an engineer who is working as a secretary and getting paid 200 bucks a month is a job or a teacher who teaches at a high school and gets paid $250 is a job. Prices in Libya are comparable to those in North America with exception of things like prices of gas and bread. I am from Tripoli and my family lives there so im not coming up with this stuff
Well if the money the country generated from oil revenues...etc was at least used to build a good infrastructure for Libya then maybe people would have had to spend large sums of money to get treated for their more serious health problem as they had to travel to Tunisia or even Egypt for a better healthcare. I am not implying that minor health problems can be treated at government hospitals because most people go to private clinics so that they dont end up misdiagnosed or even killed by the mistakes and lack of proper care at public hospitals.
Remember that 400 kids have been injected with HIV in 1999 in Benghazi? Can you trust to take your child to such hospitals?
Gaddafi had stowed away more than $150 BILLION when many Libyans were struggling to make end meet, with salaries as low as $250 a month.
I didnt know that che was quoted, what was the quote and WHO said it?
did they? what is the quote?
@Jim and Ben Hunter, Could you please expand more on how terrible the protesters (i.e revolutionaries/majority of libyan) are, and could you please support your arguments? Because to my knowledge they are people who have decided to stand up for their freedom and their rights and that they have had enough of the oppression that Gaddafi's family and their thugs practiced on them.
These are professionals and well educated people who have peacefully protested for their rights only to be faced with bullets to their heads, necks and chests. This in turn turned the whole thing into a fight for freedom (I couldn't see any other way, especially since the other option was death like we now see in Misrata).
We all know Gaddafi and his long history of supporting terrorism. Not only brutally murdering Libyans over the past 42 years but the innocent all over the world in almost every continent. Some of those terrorist acts were fully executed by his thugs or through groups that he supported with financials means as well as with weapons.
Terrorist acts are the same regardless of where they happen and who executes them. Killing innocent civilians is WRONG and that is what Gaddafi is doing not the protesters.
Libyans peaceful people and dont like what is going on, but what is the other option? death? what about the future generations?. A prove on how peaceful and loving the people of Libya are, is that Gaddafi had to hire mercenaries to kill those who decided to rise against him.
I hope I clarified somethings to you and others who may read this