Live Breaking News & Updates on Middle America Hasn T
Stay updated with breaking news from Middle america hasn t. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The chicago public schools, who this week made clear what her priorities were while running the country s third largest public school system. it s fair to say it wasn t her students. after being indicted open charges of corruption and fraud, bird bennett, who resigned earlier this year, pleaded guilty tuesday to one count of wire fraud for agreeing to get the school system to award her former employer $23 million worth of no bid contracts. in exchange, soups academy, the consulting firm bird bennett once worked for, would award her $2.3 million in kickbacks. after she left her post as ceo of the public school system. bird bennett who faces up to 7 1/2 years in prison, apologized to the students of chicago s public schools. i am terribly sorry. and i apologize to them. they deserved much more. much more than i gave to them. she also released a statement tuesday. saying there is nobody to blame ....
Yes, okay. we ve recovered. don t forget the reason we re hearing and talking about this now. middle america hasn t recovered. we didn t participate in that recovery. what you have is stagnant wages. and most people define when they look at capitalism versus socialism, besides all the scariness of that word, socialism, what that means is do not give free health care, do not help people out of work. it s a very different definition. actually mr. trump running for the republican nomination said something very similar in his response to what happened on that debate stage. let s take a listen. i watched hillary last night with we re going to give this, we re going to give that. the poor woman, she s got to give everything away because this maniac that was standing on our right is giving everything away so she s following! that s what s happening! ....