Yes you are right.
That is wonderful praise to receive
and justly deserved. And i applaud
your red, white and blue patriotism.
BUT
it isn't the whole picture.
And this is purely pd related -
i know little in this field
even less in others
but
in this wonderful united states of ours
that has so much bounty to give to others
why dont we look around us
and see the ivans
and the shirleys
struggling, barely making it,
on $5oo or less a month
{i know, I'm one of them)
and those - do you even remember their names -
Te guy who lived up nothr somewhere -
who wrote such beautiful poetry
and colleen somebody or other
who lived in georgia
and had to stop taking her medication
because a glitch at ssi
left here with no money to pay for it ?
these are but the individuals that we know.
They represent but the islands
the peaks of the archipelago
of the masses in rural areas
or inner cities that are undiagnosed - and
dont even know
of the hope of a cure..
and that is but one disease...............
lanier,
we have come far
but we have a long way still to go.
Hilary blue
(51,33,24)
> plmaddux wrote:
>
> This was sent to me by a friend,I am posting iton the listserv because
> we have many Canadians on the list.
>
>
> BUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>
> This is from a Canadian newspaper, it's worth sharing.
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto, Canada 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 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 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 10? 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, Americans
>
> Lanier Maddux Chattanooga Tn
>
