a very nice peice from canada
dont want to seem to be harping on the same subject, but please read this, its incredible, garrett you too!!!
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> >
> >This, from a Canadian newspaper no less, 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!
