Consumer Confidential: While campaigning, Trump said he'd be a consumer champion. Guess what's happened
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Mar 15, 2019
4 minutes
This has been a great week for having our noses rubbed in things we knew were happening but didn't want to believe it was this bad.
The biggie, of course, is the college admissions scandal, in which wealthy families were busted bribing their way into top schools.
Most of us parents probably assumed all along the system was rigged in favor of the rich. But it was hugely disheartening to learn how much money was changing hands, and how effective the racket was, to make sure children of privilege could elbow aside those of lesser means to cheat their way into a
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