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

Topic: "The Americans" by Gordon Sinclair

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.


BE PROUD

When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.

He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'

You could have heard a pin drop..

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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply
emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

You could have heard a pin drop.

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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies.. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries.

Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking
French?'

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'

You could have heard a pin drop.


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AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...

Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.

'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

'Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.'

The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.

'Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !'

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, 'Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.'

You could have heard a pin drop.


If you are proud to be American, British. Canadian or Australian, pass this on!

If not, delete it.

As anyone who follows history and politics knows, there has always been a very healthy debate on the issues in our country. 

Yet, now that conservatives are expressing their disapproval of President Obama's proposed health care plan, liberals are suddenly very critical of dissent and debate. Earlier this week, Speaker Pelosi accused honest citizens expressing their views on health care of being "un-American." And why? Because they disagree with her on the need for a new government insurance program.

Our Founding Fathers would be very surprised by Speaker Pelosi's attempt to clamp down on dissent. This nation was founded by patriots who staged the ultimate protest in declaring their independence from a distant and out-of-touch government. The rights to peacefully assemble and petition our elected officials are guaranteed by the Constitution. What Nancy Pelosi doesn't understand is that our differences and disagreements don't make us weaker; they make us stronger.

This is a critical time for our nation, and a lot of the issues we're debating now will affect generations to come. All of us have a duty to press on ... a duty to state our case without fear of government reprisal. 

That is why I'm writing to you to take two important steps today. 

First, I encourage you to make your feelings on the health care bill known by calling the White House at (202) 456-1111 and your congressional representatives at (202) 224-3121. Let them know that dissenting is the most "American" thing one can do and that you have very real concerns about the cost and scope of this legislation.

Second, I hope you will consider making a contribution to my Free and Strong America PAC today. Your generous contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or even the maximum $5,000 will go a long way toward making sure that we push back when big government liberals like Nancy Pelosi try to stifle debate because they don't like it when ordinary Americans disagree with their far-left agenda. 

Thank you again for your support and all that you do to ensure that our country remains free and strong.

Best,

Mitt Romney

Hey all. I've been down for a while due to surgery. Come next Monday I
will be fully released and ready to rock. In the meantime, I want to
share this letter to with all of you. Feel free to add to it and pass it
on.


Hope you all are doing well.

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My Fellow Americans,

            We have a problem in Washington, D.C., and it is greater
than any one party, political ideology or issue. Our out of control
politicians have set themselves up as royalty; Royalty, they believe, we
are here to serve and not question. They've made clear their utter
disdain for the populace over and over again. These Washington
politicians make King George look like a benevolent novice.

            Did you know members of congress make almost $200,000 a year
in salary for working 2/3 of the year? Did you know the majority of our
elected officials in Washington are multi multi-millionaires?  Yet as
unemployment numbers continue to rise across the country, and we
struggle to keep our homes, and feed and clothe our children, our
members of congress have also given themselves the following perks at
our expense?

  1.. They get to choose from 17 gold-plated, elite, top of the line
healthcare insurance options, and they refuse to give up their choices
and include themselves in the "great" and "fair" healthcare system they
are currently attempting to force on us.

  2.. They get new, gas guzzling, luxury cars, paid for by us, while
denigrating private citizens able to afford those same luxuries at their
cost.

  3.. They get chauffeurs at our expense.


  4.. They get luxury housing and five star hotels at our expense.

  5.. They get world travel, on private planes, at our expense. Did you
know, after recently shaming car CEOs who traveled to Washington in
private planes, the house just ordered 3 private Gulf Stream Jets for
their personal use at the cost of $200 million dollars? Heaven forbid
they fly commercial, at their own expense, like us lowly peasants.

  6.. They have many luxury dining halls to choose from in the capital
building, including five star dining. This way they need not see the
dirty faces of the poor, unemployed serfs standing in food stamp and
unemployment lines. Interestingly, last year, in the middle of the
night, democrats voted to privatize the management of these dining rooms
because they were unable to run them in an economical manner.


  7.. They wrote into law automatic pay raises for themselves. This
eliminates the necessity of justifying a vote for each pay raise.
Instead of changing the law to require a vote for each pay raise, they
hide behind the law as justification for not refusing it. "Gee, what can
I do? It's the law."

  8.. They get a hefty personal expense account, to be used, as they
feel necessary. I am certain they need those new 50 inch flat screen
televisions in those nice luxury homes we pay for.

  9.. They get "gifts" from those seeking favor. These gifts range from
valued tickets to a ballgame to high priced jewelry and all expense paid
trips to exotic locations. Of course, your representative will tell you
it's for the good of the government. They accept them on our behalf.

  10.. Using the power of their office, they provide large government
contracts worth millions or billions of dollars to their friends and
highest donors, which ensures high dollar donations to their campaign
coffers and probably a kick back or two.or three.

  11.. When they refuse to pay their taxes, such as Tim Geithner and
Rep. Charles Rangel, NY, they are "honest mistakes" that are rewarded
with powers of great position. Whereas if we fail to pay our taxes, for
whatever reason, it is a criminal offense and you will probably have
your wages garnished, your bank accounts seized, your homes, cars and
personal belongings sold at auction with the proceeds going to the IRS
and you will probably go to jail.

  12.. When they are caught driving while intoxicated they go to rehab.
We go to jail.


These are just a few examples of the unjustified, unwarranted, out of
control, out of touch, benefits our multi-millionaire royal members of
congress have gifted themselves. Examples that unnecessarily cost
taxpayers millions and millions of dollars each year, yet serve as
perfect examples of the self-imposed royal status that furthers the
great divide between Washington and the masses.

With their grand salaries and personal fortunes why are these
politicians continuing to loot from us? Why are they not paying for
their own housing, planes, cars, chauffeurs, world travel, high priced
hotels, tickets, jewelry, etc? Why are they not living by the same
demands and expectations they force on others?

They laugh as they continue to enrich themselves by looting from the
taxpayers. They demonize those "evil rich corporations" and attack those
"evil rich private citizens," as they exempt themselves from the very
laws they demand we follow. "Let them eat cake," they say. Why do we
allow these "evil rich" politicians to do this?

 It is time to burn the royal robes they've sewn for themselves. It is
time to put them in their place. It is time to remind them they are
lowly servants and nothing more. We do not work for them. They work for
us. We do not answer to them. They answer to us.

Call your congressman and senator today. Remind them they serve due to
the good graces of the citizens of this nation.  They serve you, your
neighbor and me. They do not serve themselves, their friends, or their
political cronies - not anymore.

Remind them, in no uncertain terms, they are not a royal class and you
will no longer permit them to act as one.

Remind them, no matter their attempts to justify, they are not deserving
of special treatment or exceptions to the rules; The very rules they
create for the rest of us.

 Remind them what is good enough for us is good enough for them and
theirs.

 Remind them they are easily replaceable.

My fellow Americans, it matters not on which side of the political isle
you reside. Certainly we can all agree members of congress, long ago,
overstepped its bounds and continue to do so with alarming disregard for
us, the taxpayer that drives not only this nation, but their elitist
lifestyles as well.

The arrogant, pompous, self-righteous attitudes of these politicians
need be replaced immediately with permanent, genuine, humility and
gratitude.

 Let us right these wrongs now. Put these politicians in their place.

Start by ensuring the best healthcare plan for you, your family, your
neighbor and your country. Demand the politicians (and their loved
ones), from the President on down, be the first signed onto this
"wonderful" healthcare bill they are trying to "gift" us by force; The
very healthcare bill most have of them have not even bothered to read.

Demand they eliminate, at the very moment this healthcare bill is signed
into law by President Obama, their 17 gold-plated, elite, health
insurance choices.  No exceptions. No excuses.

Do it today. Do it now.

Call, email, fax and visit your representatives. Do not stop. Pressure
them to lead by example and join the very healthcare system they are
generating for the masses. Do not take "no" for an answer.

When they tell you they must have these perks in case of a national
emergency. "No," you say, "you are replaceable and there is someone
qualified to fill your position immediately in the unfortunate event
that may become necessary."

God bless America for as long as she may stand,



Virginia Shanahan

Byline: Virginia Shanahan, though angry, is not a member of any mob, nor
does any lobby group or health insurance agency finance her. She is a
married mother of three who writes freelance in her spare time.

Governor Romney today delivered the following remarks to the House Republican Conference Retreat hosted by the Congressional Institute at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia.

As prepared for delivery
January 30, 2009

Thank you for the warm welcome. And thank you for the vote you took this week. You stood strong. You stood for principle. You put the best interests of the American people ahead of politics. I got some calls yesterday, after the news. They said what I feel. We want you to know that we're proud of you.

It sure feels good to be in a room full of Republicans who came out ahead on Election Day. You can be proud of your success. And don't be afraid to remind the President of this: you, too, won your election.

After my own campaign was over, Ann and I just wanted to get away from it all. We ended up in Beijing, about as far away as you can get. We went to the Olympic Games, and one of the events we attended was women's beach volleyball. I noticed a lot of people looking in our direction, pointing toward us and taking pictures. It's always nice to be recognized, and I told Ann, let's be sure to smile and look our best. Ann said, they might like us even more if we got out of the way-Kobe Bryant is standing right behind you.

A few months have passed since the election. It's enough time to consider the outcome and take stock of our party's future. I want to make clear that I'm optimistic: our ideas are good, our agenda will make America stronger, and your action this week showed that we have the kind of leaders who will stand up for what they believe in. 

I have often been asked what I think the Republican Party must do to recover. What I've said is this: My first concern isn't about our party-it's about our country. 

In fact, the two are closely related. The best way for us to advance the prospects of our party is to do what we know is right for the country. This is what the American people expect of us. And that's what we should expect of ourselves. 

This is a time of hardship and uncertainty for millions of Americans. The question is: whose leadership and ideas will turn things around. And in such a moment, it's our job to offer the clear answers, the proven solutions, and resolute leadership that will make this country strong again. 

The new President and the Congressional majority are having a difficult time doing that. After all, they have a lot of campaign rhetoric to make good on. And they've got plenty of special interests to pay back. As the opposition party, we're entirely free to do what is right for the country. There are certain advantages to that kind of freedom, and I suggest we make the most of them.  

That begins with a clear analysis of what's needed to get the economy moving again. Predictions that we are almost out of the woods, based on the length of prior recessions, are wishful thinking. Americans have lost some 11 trillion dollars in net worth. That translates into about 400 billion dollars less annual consumer spending in the economy. 

There's something else people don't talk much about: The pool of investment capital-all the money available for new investments, business start-ups, business expansions, capital expenditures, and new hiring. The size of that pool has shrunk by trillions of dollars. This was a huge loss in value, and the effect could be felt for years-in businesses that don't start up or grow, in jobs that don't get created. 

Given these extraordinary conditions, I am convinced that a stimulus is needed. 

So why not just spend and borrow with reckless abandon? Because we're in a very delicate situation that could easily get worse if Washington does the wrong thing. The package which passed the House is a huge increase in the amount of government borrowing. And we've borrowed so much already, that if we add too much more debt, or spend foolishly, we could invite an even bigger crisis. We could precipitate a worldwide crisis of confidence in America, leading to a run on the dollar ... or hyper-inflation that wipes out family savings and devastates the middle class.

We're on an economic tightrope. That's why it is so important to exercise extreme care and good judgment.

So far, the Democratic leadership hasn't shown a great deal of that. They've passed 355 billion in infrastructure spending, 60% of which won't be spent by the end of 2010. Billions for electronic medical health records-it's a fine idea, but it won't produce jobs for years and years.

Even worse are the liberal payoffs-50 million dollars for the National Endowment for the Arts, hundreds of millions of dollars to the states for STD prevention and education. Until your loud protests got it dropped from the bill, there even was 200 million dollars for the DC Mall. That might have grown some grass, but it wouldn't have grown the economy. And they're doing this when the economy is on a tightrope.

It's still early in the administration of President Obama. Like everyone who loves this country, I want him to adopt correct principles and then to succeed. He still has a chance to step in and insist on spending discipline among the members of his own party. It's his job to set priorities. I hope for America's sake that he knows that a Chief Executive can't vote "present." He can't let others run the show. He has to say yes to some things and no to a lot of others.

We need to stimulate the economy, not the government. A true stimulus package, one that respects the productivity and genius of the American people, could lift this country out of recession. And experience shows us what it should look like. 

Everyone knows that if you spend too much it creates dire circumstances down the road. America is down the road.

A tax cut does not require the spending of even more money borrowed at interest with the expectation that our grandchildren will make the payments. Tax cuts do not require the spending of money.

YES WE CAN STOP THE SPENDING!

Seems simple enough to the common folk...

http://mittromney.townhall.com

President Obama promised that he'd paste a friendly happy face on the USA image abroad. But one of his first acts as president is to arrange for the killing of unborn babies in foreign countries!

And force innocent USA tax-payers to pay the killers.

I'm asking for help getting the word out that there's something deadly wrong with President Obama's picture. I'm certain that there are many USA tax-payers like myself who do not want to have the blood of murdered infants on their hands, regardless of where in the world the slaughter of innocents takes place.

Please do what you can to peacefully object to Obama's smiley. His idea of creating change by force funding the killing of unborn children in other countries is not the image of change that America should project to the world. (Even though our own nation already runs red with the blood of innocent human beings who were denied the right to take a breath of air, see their mother's face, and live!)

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"It seems many are quick to dismiss the human embryo as nothing more than a glob of tissue. Talk about the worth of that embryo. A week-old embryo, with approximately 160 cells, may be called a "glob of tissue." But a single cell from that "glob" can be sexed as a male or female; the "glob" is immunologically and genotypically different from the mother, and is developing along the continuum of another human being. It is a miniature person with different capacities, and should be accorded the most fundamental right: the right to life with a future of value."  Dr. Clement Persaud, microbiologist.

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000007959.cfm

 

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