Meet the World’s Poorest President Who Lives on a Farm & Drives a 1987

He lives on a farm, and his official car is a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. He donates 90% of his monthly salary to charity. President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, is not your average president.

It is commonplace to see some presidents of countries living lavish lifestyles, and in some extreme cases, looting their countries’ finances for personal gain. But not Mujica.


He is commonly known as the world’s “poorest” president because of his austere lifestyle


Mujica rejected the luxurious presidential residence the government provided for him and instead opted to live on his wife’s farm located on a dirt road outside the country’s capital. They have no domestic workers – they do all the farm work by themselves. The only staff they have are two police officers.

In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration – mandatory for officials in Uruguay – was $1,800, the value of his Beetle.

In an interview with BBC, he said:



“I’ve lived like this most of my life, I can live well with what I have

I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.


This is a matter of freedom. If you don’t have many possessions then you don’t need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself…”

Mujica also has unique views about poverty alleviation. In the 2012 Rio+20 summit he stated:

But what are we thinking? Do we want the model of development and consumption of the rich countries? I ask you now: what would happen to this planet if Indians would have the same proportion of cars per household than Germans? How much oxygen would we have left?



“Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

An Arab sheikh recently offered him $1 million for his Beetle. Mujica is currently considering the offer, and says that if he does sell it, he will donate the money to charity.











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Them dey do this president from village

0700Jesse:
Them dey do this president from village

Bros how?

His helping the poor with his money naaaaa

JayKayMaybachz:



Bros how?

His helping the poor with his money naaaaa

because say i dey help the poor, i go kon poor myself shey??

Hmmmmmmm! Hp others can learn from him . Not some people chopping food of 1billion in a year

I'm not impressed


So what?




Funny enough, it didn't make the evening news.

0700Jesse:


because say i dey help the poor, i go kon poor myself shey??

That's how he chose to live his life


Not like some hungry polithivicians we've got here

echobee:
Hmmmmmmm! Hp others can learn from him . Not some people chopping food of 1billion in a year

My dear, that really got me pondering. . "What sort of human is this man"?

JayKayMaybachz:


My dear, that really got me pondering. . "What sort of human is this man"?

me too . I pray others learn.

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echobee:

me too . I pray others learn.

They won't.....



Happy Sunday

busterr:
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For Sunday?

Happy new month
they forgot we brought nothing to this world,we re taking nothing back

JayKayMaybachz:



They won't.....



Happy Sunday

busterr:
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First day of d month,u dey book space

echobee:
Happy new month
they forgot we brought nothing to this world,we re taking nothing back

Same to yhu

Their IQ is as tiny as their shoe size they wear


Stvpid & greedy people

Ah never mean they should livepoor, but they shld remember the poor ones out there

echobee:

First day of d month,u dey book space

As in eh....

Hmmmm

Atleast...he's better than some presidents looting their countries' money....e.g. The president of Nigeria...

Yustash001:
Atleast...he's better than some presidents looting their countries' money....e.g. The president of Nigeria...

JayKayMaybachz:

I lie?

Yustash001:
I lie?

Yhu no lie ma brother

some people are so poor .... all they av z money

Mk devil no catch us o.
But seriously, who go poor must surely go poor
Na him own cup of tea sha

Humbleness to the core.
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An ordinary Nigeria' ward councillor can never live like this.

Dis shud b on front page so dat we can all see d foolishness of our presido using 4billion to eat. Cc seun obianscopy lalasticala

tunery004:
Dis shud b on front page so dat we can all see d foolishness of our presido using 4billion to eat. Cc seun obianscopy lalasticala

Help me tell dem

Oga Seun

What?
An average Nigerian local government chair man can afford a SUV

OGAofBOSS:
What?
An average Nigerian local government chair man can afford a SUV

Ma brother


Da man no get children sef

And him wife na Senator

JayKayMaybachz:



Ma brother


Da man no get children sef

And him wife na Senator

This is the true definition of humility

OGAofBOSS:
This is the true definition of humility

Am tellin yhu


But.......









Me no wan dhey like that shaaaaa




But ah go dhey help people nii

Very strange he is not You know who

JayKayMaybachz:



Am tellin yhu


But.......









Me no wan dhey like that shaaaaa




But ah go dhey help people nii

But nobody is perfect sha. The man might have is own ''durty'' secret