Wednesday, April 02, 2008

re: marketplace

my favorite lines were...

"The government is not terribly good at knowing what individual people want."

"Well, we, we own the post office, and they'll do as we say."

4 comments:

Carol said...

I'm still laughing about this.

Anonymous said...

i know, i loved the post office comment!!! it makes me laugh so hard to think about it! but that's when i started to get suspicious....silly npr.

Elizabeth and Milan said...

Ohhhhhhhhhh... Now I feel stupid for believing it for so many minutes.

kate said...

oh, you shouldn't. i believed it the whole way through, listening to it on the radio. (that's why i had to redeem myself and fool other people.)

it wasn't until Kai Ryssdal said, "come on, guys...check your calendars..."

really, the PO comment should have tipped me off, but by the time i heard that i was so enraged, it just seemed like the sort of thing the gov't would say...