-- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:12:06 -0400 From: "Orr, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Canadian Perspective > From: Hinkel, Brett > This was posted in a Canadian newspaper last night. It is worth reading... > A TRIBUTE TO 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! [ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe man-bytes-dog" (the subject is ignored).]
