Considering that most Yale grads are going to work on Wall Street, this advice must have seemed like something from another planet. After all, the more gridlock, the better for the financial markets — none of that pesky regulation!
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry urged Yale University graduates on Sunday to keep faith in government’s ability to break gridlock, even as many problems remain unsolved.
Kerry, a 1966 graduate of Yale, told students and their families, faculty and staff at the Ivy League school’s 313th commencement that some people don’t believe they can make a difference “and the sum difference of all of this is that we do not believe we can make a difference. We remain gridlocked.”
Over the years, Congress has enacted broad legislation protecting the environment and civil rights, said Kerry, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts. But, he said, the need to reform immigration and grapple with climate change now remain undone.
“This daring journey of progress played out over years or decades,” he said. “Today, the felt needs are piling up while legislatures or foreign capitals seem frozen.”
zm, to continue and because Kerry is a jackass. “What do you expect?” Nothing …………and everything. Sometimes “subtle” should be less so. If your conclusion is that “What will be will be” then this: “Because men make history, not the other way round…..History doesn’t do anything.” So what we’re trying to discover is where the tipping point is. Then how much pressure is required to move the scales without ever reaching the place where “you’re dead forever.” Except through natural causes. The War Scroll doesn’t entertain that option. Nor does Marx. But technology has made it possible.