tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post3964729905310795788..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Milwaukee Council Moves On Water Deserve PraiseJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-2073719700945955012008-01-25T22:24:00.000-06:002008-01-25T22:24:00.000-06:00Thanks for sharing your feelings, Germantown_kid.Thanks for sharing your feelings, Germantown_kid.James Rowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-32949096660555096702008-01-25T20:31:00.000-06:002008-01-25T20:31:00.000-06:00Gorons like Rowen and Klein believe their own publ...Gorons like Rowen and Klein believe their own publicty and lies.<BR/><BR/>No one in Milwaukee is complaining about rail transportaton. If you want to get out of town, take the Amtrak to Chicago or Minneapolis. <BR/><BR/>Minorities can take the bus, but even they own cars. There's no institutionalized racism here, but Rowen and Klein should be institutionalized.<BR/><BR/>You two lightweight clowns sure enjoy peeing up ropes. <BR/><BR/>germantown_kidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-52748491764947442842008-01-25T11:45:00.000-06:002008-01-25T11:45:00.000-06:00Transportation is the next frontier for institutio...Transportation is the next frontier for institutionalized racism. Any policy maker worth his or her salt knows that minority populations, primarily African-Americans, have a higher than median dependency on public transit.<BR/><BR/>Milwaukee and Detroit are the only two major cities in North America without commuter rail, rail rapid transit, or light rail.<BR/><BR/>BS (Belling-Sykes) prevents a policy of rightness and humaneness by applying the "salve of self delusion" that claims: race has nothing to do with with our transit policy.<BR/><BR/>The BS "salve of self delusion" allows County and State politicians to chop the suburban extensions off public transit, so that "those people" can't get jobs in the burbs and will never be able to afford a suburban house. So the burbs can keep sucking money out of Milwaukee's poor by owning rental units and keeping "those people" economically hog tied and immobile, so they stay out of their neighborhoods.<BR/><BR/>Mind you, that BS' rationalizations for blocking rail mass transit goes hand in hand with the delusional view that global warming is a liberal ploy, and some magical technological miracle will allow us to fuel the cars that will fill our new eight lane "Free"-ways in 2020.<BR/><BR/>BS is the force of raving irrationality in light of the real threat of global warming. BS is advocacy for regional economic decline in a post peak oil world.<BR/><BR/>Our current regional transportation system's automobile centric funding paradigm can only be explained by the concordance between institutionalized racism and BS.<BR/><BR/>Route 9, KRM, Light Rail, RTA funding, dedicated funding for MCTS ... the history speaks volumes about a consistent pattern of suppressing of minority mobility, with the strongest voices against transit, not coincidentally, coming from the most segregated white constituencies.<BR/><BR/>BS has locked Milwaukee into being, like Detroit, rail-less, and hypersegregated.Joseph Thomas Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07259638384607505768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-67162279311425921502008-01-25T07:59:00.000-06:002008-01-25T07:59:00.000-06:00All Milwaukee City and County elected officials sh...All Milwaukee City and County elected officials should ask themselves why promising developments like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Altlanta Bread Company" Restaurants newar Park Place on the NW side can't stay open normal business hours - they can't find employees, or rather prospective employees can't find transportation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com