FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Is alive with people who believe that what they have to say, counts for something other than hot air. That working hard and helping others is part of the American Way.
Still has Freedom as the main ingredient in it's recipe for life.
Freedom has been: dreamt about; planned for; escaped to; died for; fought for; lied about to get; prayed for; traded for; walk, swam, flew, smuggled and ran to.
Freedom is a word that this country is based on. My country - for better or worse is still the only country on God's earth that people still escape to.
Say what you will but would you live anywhere else?
Think what you will but would you voice it anywhere else?
I think not.
God Bless America!
My country - for better or worse.
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(This is from a Canadian newspaper)
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 ppreciated 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.
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 comunities 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, 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 technology, and you get radios. You talk about German technology, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technology, 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 whe 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 a the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, American!
But please if you disagree - don't use profanity or call me names. We all have a right to our opinions.
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT OUR COUNTRY -
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.
