Great Article

Have you seen this??? This is a very well written editorial...

> > >>> THE UNITED STATES
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 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!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 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.
> >

Trying to verify the source. . . saw it in my e-mail

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