VCU honors newest graduates
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., urged the spring graduating class at Virginia Commonwealth University on Saturday to work to strike an improved economic balance in the U.S.
Webb, who was sworn in as Virginia's 56th U.S. Senator in January, said previous generations of Americans could boast great accomplishments, such as creating a democracy, winning World War II and prevailing in the Cold War.
"Your generation's legacy – no smaller a task – should be that you restored basic fairness to the economic affairs of our nation," Webb said. "That you fought against the emergence of a class system in our precious democracy and that you rejected the greed that today is all too common in the boardrooms of America's corporations."