“Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was paying a former student to keep quiet about allegations of sexual abuse from the time when Hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois, two sources with knowledge of the federal government investigation told CNN on Friday afternoon.”
There are serious reasons why this doesn’t make Hastert much different from other Members of Congress, or for that matter the President.
Childhood poverty has risen for every major racial group since 2008, according to a National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report released on 28 May. This, over the time Barack Obama has been president, but he’s immensely assisted by the Congress in this work to transfer more wealth to the plutocrats who run the system.
As the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn so succinctly puts it, “Wealth creates poverty, and poverty creates wealth.” When massive wealth is flooded to the billionaires, massive poverty swirls in its wake.