Posted on 09/24/2008 1:37:07 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
...As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi 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. And I was there. I saw that.
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. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans...
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
God Bless America
Thanks for that post. Sometimes, a simple thank you carries a long way.
God bless Gordon Sinclair, a man ahead of his time.
Thank you DieHard the Hunter for posting this.
WE WILL SURVIVE!
> God bless Gordon Sinclair, a man ahead of his time.
I remember this broadcast. I was ten at the time, living in Vancouver. It provided the basis for forming my earliest political opinions — that and the Vietnam War newsreels that they played at school.
And now, thru the power of the Internet, here it is again...
the reason that the UK is not paying any interest is because it repayed every penny, plus interest, that it received during the war.
Our indebtedness, apart from that based on mutual trust and affection, is zero
> the reason that the UK is not paying any interest is because it repayed every penny, plus interest, that it received during the war.
Seems to me the UK paid off its debt a few years ago, during Blair’s administration.
This broadcast was from 1973.
> Thank you DieHard the Hunter for posting this.
My pleasure, Cindy. America is going to come out of this particular financial crisis stronger and more efficient than ever. It’s the American way...
You’re right.
Well that's certainly true for Britain.
If only because Britain paid its war-debts off in full, including interest, at the end of 2006.
Ah 1973, never mind :0)
> If only because Britain paid its war-debts off in full, including interest, at the end of 2006.
True — I remember it. The broadcast from which this is taken was from 1973.
“Captain America” will survive.
Hear,hear.I for one and sick and tired of our money being pissed away overseas.Lets take care of the problems here first.Like defeating ACORN and other fraud voting shenanegans.
I got to see if I can see if there’s a MP3 version of the song!! It is a great song!!
You mean this one?
(Dam'n! But I do enjoy Bocephus)
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