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bronx good morning to you my friend and merry christmas so many christmas to. Good morning to you, my friend, and Merry Christmas.

So, Merry Christmas to you. Good morning to you. I was talking to the lady, and I said, you know, everybody's complaining about the MTA.

Why not privatize the MTA? Go back to the old days of the IAC, be empty independent, get rid of all this, I would say a bad word,

but the top people, keep the people, keep the drivers, make a program for ethics and protocol to educate the drivers because a lot of them are very disrespectful.

And you probably have a new system in town.

See, Anthony, here's the problem.

What you are saying is logical and intelligent.

Stop that.

How dare you be logical and intelligent and think?

See, they don't like that.

The liberals don't like logic and intelligence and think. See, they don't like that. The liberals don't like logic

and intelligence and thinking. They like socialist control. Let the government control it all.

Here's what, let me give you what I'm going to presume I know what the Libs in Albany would say.

You can't have that. It would be disorganized and we need to run it. It's a government thing.

It's got to be run by the government, government, government, government, government.ized, and we need to run it. It's a government thing. It's got to be

run by the government, government, government, government. Meanwhile, I've spoken to investors who say,

if you want to get rid of traffic in Manhattan, aside from the fact that you should get rid of bike lanes,

that you should add three tunnels to either side of the island so that everybody doesn't bottleneck

at the few places to get off the island to go to New Jersey or Queens or Brooklyn. And when I've said this to city officials, they've said, oh, that's just going to make more people drive in. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's going to remove the bottlenecks. You will eliminate traffic. And the way you afford to do that is you let private industry build those tunnels. Can you imagine if investors

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