What one Canadian thinks...

[Elwood]

I received this in an email.

 

United States..... a very interesting editorial THE UNITED STATES

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This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.

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> > > >>> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given

> > > >>> recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from

> > > >>> Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television

> > > >>> commentator. What follows is the full text of his

> > > >>> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

> > > >>>

> > > >>> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the

> > > >>> Americans as the most generous and possibly the least

> > > >>> appreciated people on all the earth.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and

> > > >>> Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the

> > > >>> Americans who poured in billions of dollars and

> > > >>> forgave other billions in debts. None of these

> > > >>> countries is today paying even the interest on its

> > > >>> remaining debts to the United States.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,

> > > >>> it was the Americans who propped it up, and their

> > > >>> reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets

> > > >>> of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the

> > > >>> United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59

> > > >>> American communities were flattened by tornadoes.

> > > >>> Nobody helped.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped

> > > >>> billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now

> > > >>> newspapers in those countries are writing about the

> > > >>> decadent, warmongering Americans.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> I'd like to see just one of those countries that

> > > >>> is gloating over the erosion of the United States

> > > >>> dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country

> > > >>> in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo

> > > >>> Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?

> > > >>> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the

> > > >>> International lines except Russia fly American Planes?

> > > >>>

> > > >>> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting

> > > >>> a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese

> > > >>> technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German

> > > >>> technocracy, and you get automobiles.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> You talk about American technocracy, and you find

> > > >>> men on the moon -! not once, but several times -

> > > >>> and safely home again.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs

> > > >>> right in the store window for everybody to look at.

> > > >>> Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.

> > > >>> They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless

> > > >>> they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American

> > > >>> dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> When the railways of France, Germany and India

> > > >>> were breaking down through age, it was the Americans

> > > >>> who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and

> > > >>> the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an

> > > >>> old caboose. Both are still broke.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced

> > > >>> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name

> > > >>> me even one time when someone else raced to the

> > > >>> Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside

> > > >>> help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one

> > > >>> Canadian who is ****ed tired of hearing them get

> > > >>> kicked around. They will come out of this thing with

> > > >>> their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled

> > > >>> to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating

> > > >>> over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of

> > > >>> those."

> > > >>>

> > > >>> Stand proud, America!

> > > >>>

> > > >>>

> > > >>>

> > > >>> This is one of the best editorials that I have ever

> > > >>> read regarding the United States. It is nice that

> > > >>> one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the

> > > >>> world would realize it. We are always blamed for

> > > >>> everything and never even get a thank you for the

> > > >>> things we do.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> I would hope that each of you would send this to

> > > >>> as many people as you can and emphasize that they

> > > >>> should send it to as many of their friends until this

> > > >>> letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a

> > > >>> single American that has read this.

> > > >>>

> > > >>> I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.

[alsz71]

I agree funny how that works.???