While Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of their ilk talk about "equality" and how they "care" while driving limo's, sitting in tens of millions, and spending lavishly, President Mujica does something that Democrats can't even begin to imagine: he actually practices what he preaches....
Jose Mujica is often referred to as the worlds poorest president.
I'm not a poor president, he told CNNs Christiane Amanpour through an interpreter on Monday. Poor are the people who need a lot Seneca said that. I am an austere president.
He donates 97% of his salary, drives a 1987 Volkwagen Beetle the original peoples car and sells flowers with his wife at their home.
Mujica, a former Marxist guerrilla, lives in the same modest Montevideo house he always has, forgoing the presidential palace.
I do not need much to live. I live in the same way I used to live when I wasnt a president and in the same neighborhood, in my same house, and in the same way. And I am a republican small r.
I live like the majority in my country lives. It was a majority who voted for me. And that's why I identify with them. Morally, I do not have the right to live like a minority in my country.
A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. That's my way of seeing it. I am not improvising. I don't do marketing. This is my philosophy.
World's 'poorest' president: "I do not need much to live" - CNN
Jose Mujica is often referred to as the worlds poorest president.
I'm not a poor president, he told CNNs Christiane Amanpour through an interpreter on Monday. Poor are the people who need a lot Seneca said that. I am an austere president.
He donates 97% of his salary, drives a 1987 Volkwagen Beetle the original peoples car and sells flowers with his wife at their home.
Mujica, a former Marxist guerrilla, lives in the same modest Montevideo house he always has, forgoing the presidential palace.
I do not need much to live. I live in the same way I used to live when I wasnt a president and in the same neighborhood, in my same house, and in the same way. And I am a republican small r.
I live like the majority in my country lives. It was a majority who voted for me. And that's why I identify with them. Morally, I do not have the right to live like a minority in my country.
A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. That's my way of seeing it. I am not improvising. I don't do marketing. This is my philosophy.
World's 'poorest' president: "I do not need much to live" - CNN