Say "fringe" to the Brawler, he immediately pictures beady-eyed dudes of advanced middle age who cruise Victor's.
Mark Belling, however, means it to refer to people who ride the bus.
From another most likely unedited opus in the Waukesha Freeman:
Unless you’re one of the fringe that actually rides the bus, transit just isn’t that important. Almost everybody who has a job drives to it or gets a ride from somebody else. Throwing tens of millions at such a tiny part of the transportation ridership is pointless. Creating a train that runs along Lake Michigan is beyond pointless; it’s moronic. Raising our already onerous tax burden for the benefit of the cult that uses transit is another nail in the region’s economic coffin.
"Economic coffin" -- seriously, one cannot be paid too little for dropping such a phrase for public consumption.
The Brawler supposes on must give Belling credit for using the word fringe instead of a racial epithet (fringebacks?). But the Bell outdoes himself in the preceding paragraph:
In the meantime, politicians and sellout business groups are again trying to raise our taxes for the least important component of the local transportation network - mass transit. The fake "crisis" has been promoted for years by The Business Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and they’re now getting backing from the increasingly left-wing Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. MMAC is joining the papers and other local lefties in calling for a 0.5 percent sales tax in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties to pay for more buses and the inane Milwaukee-Kenosha commuter train.
You might think the MMAC might have more insight into the need for a functioning mass transit system in the era of $4 gas than a failed TV talk show host. But you'd be lefties if you thought that! You gotta admit: Belling is a Brown Shirt's Brown Shirt.
As a public service, the Brawler share real life pictures of the "fringe" who use mass transit to get around town:
(Wait, that dude's white!)
(Wait, more white people?)
(Check out the dude with the papers folded in his shirt pocket!. How fringe is that?)
damn lazy kids too young to get licenses! how dare they try to live a life outside of a 5-block radius from their homes!
Posted by: cupcakes | June 23, 2008 at 09:58 AM