posted 09-13- 10:06 AM               

"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!

posted 09-13- 01:23 PM               

Anyone who comes from the middle east.

Jerry I'm glad we moved too

posted 09-13- 03:35 PM               

Werner

posted 09-13- 10:49 PM               

I don't think anyone is saying the US is perfect, but a little respect now and then would be nice. Afterall, just take a look to the East to see how things might have been...