Something to think about. was What I saw yesterday

[Randy Martinez <howlinmonkey16v@yahoo.com>]

This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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 broadcast. 
"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! 
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. 
Stand proud, America 


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Randy
87 2.0l 16v Rice Eater
89 8v Gti (sold for Rocco)
Teaneck, NJ

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