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Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"


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The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. 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 those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.

I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women 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 everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.

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 to you 5,000 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 neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them 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 these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.

This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.

Make's me proud

RotaryGeek

wow i never thought about it like that. never really hear any foreign news unless its bad. i just thought other countries were doing the same as we were. wow other people suck. just proves the nice guy doesnt win.

2tone

Cliffnotes: One Canadians opinion on how great the USA is.

I say if he loves the states so much then move.

MikeJ-2009

Don't mention it. It's not the American people who give thier money, it's the American government giving the peoples' money away, and the only reason they do it is so you don't complain when we rape your mother.

Our government wouldn't take anyones help for the dollar anyway. In order to make the NAU work, we have to reduce ourselves first to Canadian worth, and then to Mexicos so that everything will melt calmly and we can be assured of better times if we merge. Then the beaners and canucks rape us. Yip, yip, yahooo.

2tone

You're absolutly right about the government giving away the money to other countries in tough times. I'm sure the american people given the opportunity/choice would rather see their money go to local schools, hospitals and getting homeless children off the streets rather than foreign countries and such.

buk9tp

since when is the us the nice guy? the government is just out to ---- its people our government doesnt give a ---- about us laws are no longer passed or eliminated because of what people want its the god damned lobbyists running the congressmen and senators that serve the interests of large ------- corporations rather than the interest of the people, most people cant even begin to imagine the us deficit they cant even comprehend how big of a ------- number it is yet we continue to pour money into foreign aide and other retarded ---- not saying we have to be a perfect country before we help anyone but ---- were far from ------- perfect no where even near that the school systems ------- suck, the social security fund is on the brink of collapse, theyre a ---- ton of corruption going on at all levels of government ---- this ----

MikeJ-2009

And then we have saps like Isreal wanting to leach off us some more, except now they demand we give them free money in Euros, and not our own currency. What does are government say? "Sure, we'll kiss your *** and give it to you how ever you want."

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3689


It's not thier fucken money anyway.

losesomethinbra

I dont trust the government either but that just means I'll watch my back and live like an illegal alien

buk9tp

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA that made my day ontop of israel lobbying for ammendments to the nuclear treaty so it can ship in some nuclear fuel as if they havent BEEN shipping it into there country for years

ummm

so how bout we agree to do the same thing for egypt in the spirit of ramadan