flat broke
09-12-2001, 02:36 PM
I received this from a friend who indicated that it was an editorial found in the Canadian media.
> >Subject: FW: how true-
> >Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:31:59 -0700
> >
> >This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> >
> >America: The Good Neighbor.
> >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 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!
I'm glad someone finally recognized that little fact.
Keep your chins up and flags high,
Chris
> >Subject: FW: how true-
> >Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:31:59 -0700
> >
> >This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> >
> >America: The Good Neighbor.
> >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 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!
I'm glad someone finally recognized that little fact.
Keep your chins up and flags high,
Chris