[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

Thu Jun 20 15:24:00 2002

We dole out money to most of the countries that criticize us. If we
don't do anything about their problems, we aren't "doing our share" in
the world.  If we do something we are imperialist pigs.  Can't win if
you are dealing with people. Many of the societies that want us
destroyed exist in modern terms because of us. Even a cur dog is
grateful to it's benefactor.

   As far as Africa is concerned when the imperialists left the locals
started killing each other and haven't stopped. Now that somehow is
our fault too. Even though it was Europe that did the colonization and
left at the request of the locals.
   The local governments are too corrupt to do anything but kill their
own people. It's not that aid hasn't been sent, most of it is stolen.
These people were no more ready for self government than the man in
the moon, BUT.. world opinion... whimpy, weepy, sorry, world opinion
saw them as "oppressed".  Now they are not oppressed by a foreign
government, they are dead at the hands of their own people.  I guess
that's an improvement, but it's not our fault.

   You want money?... Earn it or it comes with strings.  I sincerely
believe that the Marshal Plan was a serious error.  Had we left them
to rebuild themselves, they would probably respect us now.

   "You can't help a man by doing for him what he can and should do
for himself"
    A.  Lincoln.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph E Douglass" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Patriotic rant....

> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 6/20/02 11:34:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > [email protected] writes:
> >
> > > f these other folks want what we have then they need do the same
thing
> > > we did. Fight for it
> >
> > Especially if you define "what we have" as disproportionate
influence over
> > world politics, culture, entities, events, opinion, etc., isn't
that what
> > they believe they're doing?
> >
>
> They may believe that. But all they are really asking is that we
give to
> them what took us a long time to build and earn. Is it right that we
> have so much? I am not sure. But I am sure that we have what we have
due
> to the work of our fore-fathers and due to our work now.
> Yes we were blessed to have been in a land of great natural
resources.
> But many other places have that as well. What is different? It is
the
> choices that were made to have a freer society where that with hard
work
> you too can have. Today it is much harder to do this, but it is
still
> possible. And as others have stated, even our less fortunate here
> usually have it much better than other parts of the world.
>
>
> Ralph
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Excellence.
> Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a
Decision."
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