!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!This article is awesome!!!! >Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:43:05 -0600 >From: "Christopher Conner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Navidec >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: Samuel Schetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > david himelein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Shawn Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Pat Dvorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Interesting article from a canadian newspaper > > > This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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 > broadcast. > "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." -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bill Conner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
