The world's 'poorest' president

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Jose Mujica of Uruguay the world's poorest president

 

[Munkfish]

Jesus whats my Grandad doing becoming the president of Uruguay!!

Grandad come home, you're Drunk.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Jose Mujica of Uruguay the world's poorest president

President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders and opted to stay at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.

The president and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers.

This austere lifestyle - and the fact that Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity - has led him to be labelled the poorest president in the world.

 

[blue2]

In these times of austerity I think we may have found a role model

 

[clippedgull]

Brilliant quote

"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," he says.

"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,"

Excellent quote and so true!

 

[Surrey Seagull]

In these times of austerity I think we may have found a role model

Would make a bloody good role model for some of our MPs!

 

[Phat Baz 68]

That looks like a Jock called George who drinks in the Social Club in Crowborough
absolute spit of him ha ha ha !!
Even stands like that with his hands in his pockets !!