“If you stop licensing taxi cabs, tomorrow you will see guys and women on every street corner saying, ‘Who wants to go to XYZ address?’ (The cabbie) will put five people in the car and drive them to that address. … When the guy drops them off, if he’s smart, he’ll say: ‘Tomorrow — same thing, right? What do you guys want to drink for breakfast?’ There will be cappuccino and ice tea and glass of milk. After X months, he will have three cars; after X months, he will have a fleet. And everyone will be competing to meet the needs of the commuters, which also is going to reduce traffic. Why are they allowed to compete? Because the government got the hell out of the business.”
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July 17th, 2011 at 7:30 AM
Hi Rox:
This was a GREAT synopsis by Mamet, and a should.
I didnt know you were in N. AZ.
I am in Prescott 😀
(I saw your etsy page, cute)
July 18th, 2011 at 8:46 PM
OMG!!! We are only a couple hours apart!!! We need to get together!
This is just way too cool!
(Thanks for checking out my site, btw!)
July 13th, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Unfortunately elected influence peddlers and their crony influence buyers don’t believe in free competition; i.e., capitalism.
July 13th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Exactly. If it’s a failure of government then we just need to spend more money on it!
Stupid fools!
July 13th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
It is quite brilliant, too bad we don’t have people in the government smart enough to understand it and get out of the way!
July 13th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Boy Howdy is that the truth!
July 13th, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Which leads us back to the TSA mess, right?
July 13th, 2011 at 9:35 AM
lol Great for you to put that together, I didn’t! But you’re absolutely right Freedom.