GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Jimbone]

I couldn't care less about what you allegedly built or didn't build in western europe you didn't rebuild or build anything in Great Britain that's for sure.

And anyway after D Day you helped to flatten western europe while driving back the krauts like the rest of the allies when we invaded, why shouldn't you put your hand in your pockets to help rebuild the mess we caused just like everybody else did?

I don't think the US is shit I've holidayed there four times, very nice place, its just a shame some of its citizens can't stop talking shit.

But but but, wait! The US was just cannon fodder, remember?

The truth is that the US did save the UK's ass. Without the financial support of America, the UK would have been unable to stay financially solvent. At the end of the war, when lend-lease ended the UK was financially fucked. It might frost your chaps, but unfortunately for your ego the US did help rebuild the UK via the Marshall Plan. The UK was the recipient of nearly 3 billion dollars for reconstruction - more than any other country in Europe! Not to mention additional loans the UK took from the US because the UK was on the balls of its ass.

Had the US not provided that postwar aid or those additional loans, the UK would have collapsed on itself financially. It had no way to rebuild or or stay solvent otherwise. You can groan on and on about it, but there is no changing the history of how things happened.

So yes Virgina, there was a Santa Claus in the UK during and after WW2. Her name was the United States of America.

You're welcome.