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Could not have said it better myself!
MayTseshuyan1@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the
> most
> generous and possibly the least appreciated 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 their 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 railway 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 the
> 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 neighbours have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned
> 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! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
> (author : Gordon Sinclair)
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