Home  >  Community  >  The Vendio Round Table  >  From Canada - God Bless Canada !!!!!!!


<< previous topic post new topic post reply next topic >>
 REAMOND
 
posted on September 12, 2001 12:57:16 PM new
This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, 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!
>



 
 sulyn1950
 
posted on September 12, 2001 01:06:07 PM new
Thanks for the post READMOND!

That's what we are: we are helpers! Hopefully we will never become calloused to the point of NOT being helpers!


 
 MrsSantaClaus
 
posted on September 12, 2001 01:18:17 PM new
AWESOME!

Becky


 
 docpjw
 
posted on September 12, 2001 01:31:19 PM new
If it were Not SO TRUE, people would think he was making it Up! Thank YOU Canadians!!!

 
 kraftdinner
 
posted on September 12, 2001 01:39:40 PM new
REAMOND, thanks for that. We owe a great deal to the U.S. As I said earlier, Canadians are in shock. People here and in other peace keeping countries are crying over this tragedy, and although our military isn't a huge one, we're on total alert for you guys. You are still the strongest nation on the planet and we won't let you down.

 
 RoseBids25cents
 
posted on September 12, 2001 02:03:31 PM new
This is the same message posted by HopelessSinner in "Just had to share this one" thread..

http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=28&thread=114541

Just mentioning this here because I found the post by Deuce on that thread to be interesting.

Rosie
 
 REAMOND
 
posted on September 12, 2001 02:24:13 PM new
Remarkable. Who would have thought that an article written about the fall of the dollar in 1973 would find such an application to what has happened ?

 
 
<< previous topic post new topic post reply next topic >>

Jump to

All content © 1998-2024  Vendio all rights reserved. Vendio Services, Inc.™, Simply Powerful eCommerce, Smart Services for Smart Sellers, Buy Anywhere. Sell Anywhere. Start Here.™ and The Complete Auction Management Solution™ are trademarks of Vendio. Auction slogans and artwork are copyrights © of their respective owners. Vendio accepts no liability for the views or information presented here.

The Vendio free online store builder is easy to use and includes a free shopping cart to help you can get started in minutes!