The Kids are All Right

A beautiful pause in the health care debate from Thomas Friedman in the NYT today, reminding us that there is hope that we're doing some things right thanks to the kids of recent immigrants. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21friedman.html

He wrote:

Gotta say, it was the most inspiring evening I’ve had in D.C. in 20 years. It left me thinking, “If we can just get a few things right — immigration, education standards, bandwidth, fiscal policy — maybe we’ll be O.K.” It left me feeling that maybe Alice Wei Zhao of North High School in Sheboygan, Wis., chosen by her fellow finalists to be their spokeswoman, was right when she told the audience: “Don’t sweat about the problems our generation will have to deal with. Believe me, our future is in good hands.”

As long as we don’t shut our doors.

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