The Americans

Gordon Sinclair
"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario




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 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.




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[Cal2289]

Romans,British,Americans u won't b on top 4 ever all great powers fall

[rebel072162]

@Cal2289 as much as i hate to say it you r right

[rebel072162]

@BlackPowerFukWhitey you dumb n**** no ware does this video say white or black or red or any other color

i do believe king want all people to get along that means all races maybe you need to play the speech and hear what he says i hate people like you

[bo31red38]

Well Gee Whiz! I guess we are just arrogant! BUT WE DO DEFEND FREEDOM AND ALWAYS WILL. GOD BLESS THE USA.

[AquaPhoenix2006]

Makes me sad that neither the USA or the rest of the world can live up to the idealism underlined in this vid

[ub3rproductions]

What? Only 23k views???

This broadcast is over 30 years old and while some of the examples are outdated, the sentiment is the same. America is condemned for every single mistake and given hardly any credit at all for it's charity. Where is the reciprocity? Americans work hard and help other people and nations, and for what?

[722redtree]

from wikipedia, re the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: "...the Dominion of Canada made a special appropriation of $100,000 and even the Bank of Canada in Toronto gave $25,000...." THANK YOU CANADA!

[MrToastOmnomnom]

The only real problem America does have is that some of the people aren't nice, the kids don't wanna learn, and the government isn't filled with the best people. Other than that this is the best country and every other county can hate but for one of the youngest country's made we sure act the wisest. So we will sit back and watch the little kid run on our yard and use it as a play ground but when they grow up they'll see how grate we are. Your welcome world from America.

[maxbuzzFR]

All what is said in this video is maybe true but the author forget a few things not known from most people in the world including americans:

1/ news are biased and patriot in essence

2/ the FED and bankers behind are tricking US citizens and steal value from them and other countries people including european union ones

3/ as shown by antony c sutton the US gvt, industries and bankers are responsible for all major wars

[kaite117]

@Chunderitis

We had great influence over the rebuilding of Japan in their economics, military, education, and government. We gave them great amounts of money in the form of loans for rebuilding. As an American I can say that my people and I do not deny the radiation poison and harm we did. In the end America did the right thing and because of it we have a stronger friend ship with Japan.

[Chunderitis]

@kaite117 How? All the usa did was deny radiation poisoning!

[shortstuff910mc]

@Chunderitis If you piss of America enough, we will fucking destroy you.

[kaite117]

@Chunderitis

Yes we did.... but we DID help rebuild the devastation we left behind.

[kellogs345]

@UnitedStates168 i´m too your right :-)