OT: A Little Pat On The Back For America...

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DD#3 e-mailed this to me, thought I'd pass it on.

Not humorous, but interesting. It's an >editorial by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian TV personality, about Canadian >perspectives on the US. I'm not entirely sure what must have happened to >bring this on--the US was probably getting in trouble again for being >generally goofy or something. Apologies if this has already appeared >here. > >>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 the franc 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, 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 Tristar, or the Douglas 10? 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 American 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 5,000 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 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 trouble.

-- justme (justme@myhouse.com), January 09, 2000

Answers

All right it is true that America helped all the world Marshallplan etc etc but the world now lives the American Way,I do not know that Americans are helping all the world running around to cover all the wars .But it is true that american companies take an economical advantage out of it .

Anyway USA is GREAT

-- Alex The Italian (alexcapr@yours.com), January 09, 2000.


The original was done in 1973. I remember hearing it on the radio. They put it to some background music and even played it on several of the so-called long-haired pinko-commie rock-n-roll stations that I (being a so-called long-haired pinko-commie at the time) tended to listen to...

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(The link to the original transcript is at the bottom of the page.)

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), January 09, 2000.


FWIW, here's my two Canuck cents on the subject: Americans do all sorts of wonderful things for the world (often with a profit-motive, which is fine . . . it's the American Way). Americans are not appreciated because they are so full of themselves that it's sickening. Typical example: I recenetly spoke to an American who told me about this oil-well he had recently visited. He told me that it was the second largest one. I asked "in the States or the world?" He didn't know and seemed a little miffed that I would ask such a question (with his general feeling being that anything outside the Excited States is pretty much irrelevant anyway. This attitude is common throughout America.

-- Think It (Through@Pollies.Duh), January 09, 2000.

Think It,

Yes its a constant source of entertainment, I remember a young American in a Zurich Burger King getting hostile because they would not accept his US$ he said "this is a Burger King isn't it?!"

-- Will (righthere@home.now), January 09, 2000.


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