Posted on 04/25/2015 10:02:00 AM PDT by John Semmens
Speaking Tuesday at the 45th Annual Washington Conference of the Council of the Americas, Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the Obama Administration's critics for undermining the country's economy.
"Countries are far more likely to advance economically and socially when citizens have faith in their governments and are able to rely on them for justice and equal treatment under the law," Kerry maintained. "Yet, day-after-day President Obama faces a raft of criticism of his policies from the likes of Senator Cruz, Governor Walker, and others. These criticisms are destroying people's faith in the government."
Kerry cited a recent Pew Research Center study finding that only 23% of Americans trust the federal government to do the right thing at least most of the time as "evidence of the pernicious impacts these chronic critics of progressive policies are having. If trust in government is low, people will be deterred from investing, working, and earning. If people aren't investing, working, and earning there will be less activity that can be taxed and government will lack the resources to guarantee everyone's prosperity."
The Secretary expressed doubt that "there is any legal way we can prevent this costly criticism," but held out hope that "President Obama might come up with some sort of ameliorating executive action that could at least mute the worst of some of these damaging aspersions on the wisdom, ethics, and character of the President."
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John Hanoi Kerry of course is talking about himself as he spent decades criticizing administrations.
ahhhh, John, you’re the BEST!!! Thanks for posting this.
Of course Kerry(who served in Vietnam) prospered on his own by marrying rich women. John(Budweiser) McCain did likewise.
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