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Okay guys just found some one who somewhat agrees with my views.
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!
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That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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