Rahm Emanuel
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And there's as much anger at that as much as nobody has told these people.
Basta.
Take your hands off my kids.
So there's a wealth piece.
There's a power piece.
And they feel like the government's role, and the government has been AWOL, is to basically equal this out when it gets out of kilter.
It's been over a hundred years.
Yeah, so let me two to three things.
Yeah, no, look.
One is, when I was mayor, one of the most, I think, monumental changes we made.
The era you're talking about, whether that's railroad barons, conglomerate barons, or going into as Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, the scales are tipped.
Only school system in the country to do this.
You couldn't get your high school diploma without showing us a letter of acceptance from a college, a community college, a branch of the armed forces, or a vocational school.
The only system in the country was called Learn, Plan, Succeed.
And we hired a ton of college and career counselors.
I mean, it was backed up with, you know, we were the first city ever to do free community college if you earned a B average, et cetera.
But to me, you want to be a plumber?
And I think he's right.
No, there's no doubt.
You want to be an electrician?