I don’t know if I am right on this but I have seen it happen in my own life. It seems the more you help people the more you are hated for it. I had an employee one time that always was having problems so I helped her out of many situations. Once she was having her house forclosed on so I cosigned at a bank for her to keep her from losing it. Sure enough she defaulted and I was stuck for over $8,000 dollars. Then when she didn’t call into work for a week and half I had to let her go and sure enough she sued me.
So it got me to thinking about the US how we jump to help everywhere we can and I wonder if the same thing is happening to her.
I heard this article read at my church Sunday and it made me think how America has done so much with little or no appreciation. Ya’ll may have already read it because it has been on the net but I am sure others haven’t. It comes from a Canadian journalist, Gordan Sinclair.
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous an dpossibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and to a lesser extent, Britain and Itably 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 US.
When France was 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 US that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the 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 eroision of the US dollar build its own airplane. Does any other Country in the world have a plane to equal the Boing Jumbo Je, 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 abou 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 scandles, an the Americans put theirs right in the store windowfor everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgersare not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breadking Candian 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 Pennyslvania 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 help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone raced in to help the Americans in trouble? I don’t think therre was outside help evne during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors ha ve faced it alone, and I’m one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this think 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."
