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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts) Wed Dec 11, 2013, 03:27 AM Dec 2013

Now Uruguay's gotten your attention by legalizing pot, meet their President, Jose "Pepe" Mujica

He earns $15K a year and says he has more than enough

Here's his September UN speech:

We have sacrificed the old immaterial Gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the 'Market-God'. This God organizes our Economy, our Politics, our Habits, our Lives and even provides us with Rates and Credit Cards and gives us the appearance of happiness. It seems that we have been born only to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration and we suffer from poverty, and we are marginalized. -- "Pepe" Mujica