Economic Outlook

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July/August 1976
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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One of the very few "leaders" on earth today who seems worthy of the title is General Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. Rather than try to smother that nation's inflation and unemployment with double-shuffle welfare checks, investment credits, hikes in social security, no-interest "loans", and all the other tired old printing press "solutions" that our guys keep trotting out ... General Obasanjo is actually attempting to put his people to work on something that can cut their most basic cost of living.

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Nigerian individuals, families, schools, colleges, military units, and other groups are being encouraged to start gardens, revive old farms, and otherwise work to produce enough food to make the country completely self-sufficient.

Naturally the idea of such a straightforward program ("work and grow for yourself what's costing you so much in the marketplace") has never occurred to our "sophisticated" economists and politicians. Why...only someone like the "ignorant" head of an "underdeveloped" nation would think of something as "simplistic" as that.

Hmmm ... I wonder if we could write in General Obasanjo's name this fall when it comes time to vote for president?

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