Out Of Service: Milwaukee Budget Cuts Hit Bus Lines -- And Keep Residents From Jobs

The government, screaming "green" and "carbon dioxide", has been urging people to give up the freedom of their own cars and to accept independence on mass public transportation. When people actually do it, the public transportation has been shut down for lack of funds. Does this sound like good government to you??


Peggy Schulz was fed up. In March, after being unemployed for nearly two years, she performed an experiment: She went to a job-search website, limited the search to the Milwaukee area and typed in a simple term: "bus line."

The results displayed what had long been plaguing her. Job posting after job posting featured similar caveats: "this is not on a bus line," "need reliable transportation not on bus line," "positions are NOT on a bus line," "our client that is not located on a bus line is interested in having you work ..."

"Here it was in black and white," she later recalled with a bitter laugh. "It's been very frustrating to look through the want ads, look online, think about places I could work and realize, 'Nope, can't get there on the bus.'"

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