> A lot of other countries are mocking our"Election"
> (including us Americans) and the jokes are funny but
> think about the following:
> This, from a CANADIAN newspaper, IT 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 speakup 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?