i do not know why jim gillespie said we did not. i do not agree with the mta renting them out as a pilot program. i like the incentive idea that if you take enough radio calls there would be no charge for it. and possibly explore what was suggested about the medallion holders being able to purchase the medallions or obtain them. i think they should be earned. i do not think they should have to be bought by people who spent their career driving a cab and putting up with what all that takes. as far as yellow cab not supporting this, i worked for yellow cab 20 years. i started there and we were on radio and there was no service problems. since they went to a computer, no one has been able to get a cab. i believe yellow cab is doing a concerted effort to make it appear as though we need more cabs and there is a shortage and their dispatches a highly flawed. i have moved to another company that is ready a dispatched and people are served. -- a radio dispatc radio dispate are served. >> our next speaker. >> good afternoon. >> these -- i a

. >> jim gillespie, dan hines, [inaudible] >> thank you. i am with yellow cab. regarding item 11, i would support the increase

. >> jim gillespie, dan hines, [inaudible] >> thank you. i am with yellow cab. regarding item 11, i would support the increase in the meter for the drivers. i want to address item 12. i'm looking here at the summary that was handed out for item 12. you mentioned 1500 cabs in san francisco. the next bullet point said that taxi service is considered unreliable. i would agree. the issue we have been discussing for years has been capacity. we need more medallions. they decided to do -- put off an -- put up an rfp and that is supposed to be fast track and they will do awa pcn hearing and they come up with these 50 medallions that i do not understand. i have attended town hall meetings and tac meetings and that none of those was a single operating permit discussed. there were ideas about why it would not work and how it could. if your for your approval is an idea that one has been tried in other cities and has not been discussed by us. at the very least i would hope you would continue this item so it can be discussed and can be vetted. there is an rfp going out for th

i will quote nick gillespie in the book the declaration of independence. the one thing gymer carter did great -- jim me carter did was de regulate the airline industry. you have to do this with healthcare. you will always pay for somebody. that's the way it works. but there will be less of that if there is competition. if the health plans can compete against each other. most doctors refuse to treat you though. >> scientists love me. i get in there free all the time. >> you were patient x. >> must like the matthew broderick film. i think obama's biggest mistake was he didn't call it what it was, a mandate, a tax. st's like -- i think the second mistake was not making me health czar. if he would have listened to me all of his problems would have been gone. >> when you wear that jacket it remines me of a medicine man who has any likzer in a glass jar. >> it is like the guy why the question mark jack jacket, what he is wearing on the weekend. >> you can get money from the government. >> there are 80 new prizes or pieces of land. boy i am glad i clarified that. do you have a comment on the show? to leave