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Oct. 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I know I've got there's a lot of stuff here in the audio soundbite roster.
We we put together some, actually, we've had this, and we've used it once.
Uh, because Barney Frank, we're still trying to figure this out.
Barney Frank a couple nights ago on television said I want a vicious, a vicious homophobic attack.
I we, for the life of me, can we cannot figure out anything homophobic, vicious or otherwise.
Anyway, Barney's out there saying two things that the subprime mortgage crisis was a Republican's problem, uh, and that there wasn't a problem.
There wasn't a problem, and if there was, it was Republicans.
And we put together a 16 sound bite illustration of all of the regulators came before Congress and the Democrats making mince meat of these guys who are trying to warn of the dangers of the sound subprime mortgage crisis.
We've got that here.
I think I think I'm gonna play this.
Let's see.
What?
Yeah, I guess it'd be number 30 is where we're gonna start, Mike.
But first, before we get to that, I I don't want to leave this tax cut tax increase business alone.
I want to reiterate there will nobody is talking about tax cuts for anybody.
And what Obama's counting on is class envy.
He's counting on being able to get you to agree for tax increases on the so-called top two percent of wage earners, because they don't need the money anyway.
We could better use that money or deficit reduction or giving it to you to spend.
But here's the here's the dirty little secret.
And this is what this is what Obama and his little gang of Marxist socialists do not understand, and they never will understand, and they won't understand it while it's happening right before their very eyes.
The thing that they don't get is how industrious and clever, creative and entrepreneurish, productive Americans can be.
particularly in coming up with legal tax avoidance plans.
That tax code isn't multiple thousands of pages for no reason.
Now we're talking about the wealthy here, folks.
This is I want you to focus, we're not talking on a 250,000 dollar, 500,000 a year people.
They're not gonna have access to that multiple thousands of page tax code.
They're earning wages.
they have income income taxes there aren't a whole lot of shelters anymore and that's not the people were talking about all by the wants you to think that everybody at two hundred and fifty grand is no different somebody has two hundred fifty million But there is a huge difference, and these people that Obama thinks, you're gonna be happy being targeted.
These people are going to devote themselves to coming up with legal ways to avoid paying Obama's taxes.
They are going to spend all of their time doing that instead of being productive.
They're gonna spend all of their time protecting what they've earned and what they've got via the tax code.
They're gonna spend as much energy creative and entrepreneurish as they have to make sure Obama doesn't get his greasy hands on it.
And they will succeed.
The tax code, as I say, is not multiple thousands of pages for a reason.
For no reason.
It is written by people to help the very people Obama wants you to hate hold on to what they've got while you can't.
We saw this in the 70s and 80s.
We saw this when the top marginal tax rate was 90%.
And there were brackets way below that.
I mean, lots of brackets.
80%, 85%, 84.5%.
I mean, there were brackets out the wazoo.
And people who were genuinely wealthy spent all of their time in the 70s and 80s focused on more elaborate tax shelters rather than creative entrepreneurship.
Because the tax code punished that.
The tax code punished success.
And that's where we're headed with this gang of jackass neophyte ignoramuses.
We're heading to the same place where success is going to be punished.
So rather than be punished, the really brilliant creative people are going to focus on holding on to what they've got.
They're not going to let him take it and give it to you come hell or high water.
It ain't gonna have to happen in the 70s and it happened in the 80s, and this is why Reagan finally had to come in and cut tax rates from first from uh from 90% to 70%, 70% to 50%, 70%, 50 to 28.
Now we know the story.
We know what happened to revenues when those tax rate reductions took place.
There is nothing.
I am here to tell you, there is nothing Obama and his little merry gang of Marxists can do to stop this from happening.
The tax code is written to help the very people he wants you to think are being targeted to hold on to what they've got.
It's gonna cost them a lot of money.
You may not, you might say, Rush, why would they spend all this money on tax lawyers?
Why would they spend more money than it might save them?
Because it's a matter of principle.
When some socialist Marxist gang is running your country and their efforts to take money away from you, you stop them.
If it costs you more than it would cost you to pay taxes, you do not let them have it.
It's the whole concept of estate planning.
I didn't understand it at first.
I had all these leeches hovering around me.
You need an estate planning lawyer and a tax accountant advisor.
Why?
Well, you gotta keep the government from getting them.
I said, what do I care?
I'll be dead.
We're talking about estate.
What do I care?
Don't you want every place more valuable than the government for your money to go?
Charities or your family?
And I would say the last thing I'm gonna do is give somebody a whole bunch of money and ruin their life.
It'll destroy their work ethic, it'll destroy.
I mean, I'll just, but I'm not but rush, but rush, don't you?
And for the longest time I said, screw, I don't care, I won't be here.
I'd rather go the simple route, not have to mess with all this, not have to pay all these lawyers, not to pay all these accountants, and then finally.
I forget when it was, but the light went off.
And now I will spend whatever I have to to make sure that somebody else gets it besides Obama.
And that's what I'm just telling you.
If you, and I know you in the audience here are not the kind of people going to be persuaded, but you know who I'm talking about, the very people Obama hopes will vote Democrat because he's gonna go soak these people.
He's gonna go soak these wealthy people.
I'm telling you, those people are gonna spend as much time and money as they can to make sure he doesn't get it.
Which is gonna result in those people not being productive, and those people not creating jobs, and those people not investing in their own business.
They're gonna be investing in lawyers, and you know how that goes.
They're gonna be investing in lawyers and accountants.
It's a matter of principle, folks.
It's a matter of principle.
I mean, it's it's a normal thing to want to shelter your money from the government when you've got a Marxist little guy and his gang actually trying to take it from you, then you get your back up and you become even more resistant to it.
And you explore every option you can, including leaving the country.
If it gets really bad, which some people are doing.
That's why there's little acres over there in New Zealand that look good, except global warming is creaming those people.
They've had a blizzard over there wiping out livestock at the end of winter.
But that's another matter.
I'm keeping track of what's going on in New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore.
Europe's lost.
UK is gone.
They may as well have erased their borders 20 years ago.
They're finished.
You don't want to go there.
Some of the former Soviet bloc, the Eastern Bloc, some of the new democracy there, they show some promise, but Putin's got them targeted.
Cuba, interesting, it might be a place to, but I don't know if that'll happen soon enough.
But regardless, yes, lots of places being examined.
My only point, folks, is this.
People say, wow, look at how much money Shaquille O'Neal has or LeBron James or whatever.
Yeah, look how much money the guy paying him has.
That's what nobody thinks about.
You think Shaquille's rich?
How about the person paying him?
The person paying him.
Shaquille's chump change to the guy paying him.
LeBron Chump change.
Same with Tiger Woods.
Tigerwood's chump change compared to all of Nike is paying him.
What are they going to do?
They're going to find ways to keep Obama from getting it.
Individuals, corporations, but primarily individuals, they're going to do everything they can to make sure Obama doesn't get it rather than invest in growth.
And this is what is happening in the 70s and 80s, and this is why Carterism happened.
This is why the Malays happened.
The productive class, the entrepreneur class, shut down.
It made no sense to succeed when 90% of it had to go to the government.
When 90% of the last dollar you earned had to go to Uncle Sam, when 70% of the last dollar you earned had to go to government.
It made no sense to earn it.
It wasn't worth the time.
You lowered that 70% to 28%.
Now we're talking.
Now we're going to go out and we're going to bust rear ends.
And we're going to start creating.
And we're going to be entrepreneuring.
And we're going to invest.
And we're going to try to make as much profit.
And we're going to report as much income as we can rather than sheltering it.
Because we get to keep 68 cents of it.
Rather than 28 or 30.
Thank you.
And that's what's going to happen is where we're headed.
I mean, this is socialism, this communist stuff, it just cycles and repeats.
The difference here is that this guy is intending for us not to come out of this.
That's the difference.
He is intending for this to be FINE and permanent.
The um, what's he calling it?
Um, the um hope and change, reform, a new America or what have you.
So if you are in any way dependent on anybody else for what you have, I mean, you work.
If you're if if you're dependent on a job, and therefore somebody having a job and work needing to be done for which you will be paid, if you're counting on that, you cannot in any way support not just Obama but the Democrat Party.
They want to pull that rug out from underneath you.
And let me give you another thing to think about.
Just one word.
Snurtly look at me.
Baileys.
Caribbean superpower of Baileys.
Look it up on a map.
You'll find it down there in a Central America.
Belize, New Zealand, Singapore.
What does it say?
What does it tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that three of the wealthiest Americans, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ross Perot, hold the bulk of their wealth in the non-taxed form of unrealized capital gains.
How many of you know what an unrealized capital gain that you want an unrealized capital gain his dawn does it?
See, that's what I'm talking about.
You think you think whatever Obama does is going to cost Gates and Buffett anything?
Or Perot?
The Clintons.
I don't know if they still do, but they had three investment entities registered in the Cayman Islands as recently as 2004.
With Burkle.
Exactly right.
Ron Burkel and you had Kerry, John Kerry served in Vietnam.
Once upon a time, he had a Cayman Islands account.
Now that's called offshore sheltering.
I mean, that's there's one reason why you have an account down there.
And it's not to keep Luigi from finding you.
And by the way, John Kerry found a way to avoid paying his yacht tax until discovered what he was doing.
Oh yeah.
You think those thousands of pages of the tax code are just the result of Helter Skelter addition and bureaucracy run amok.
Think again.
Who's writing them?
Who's writing it all?
Obama keeps saying about the tax cuts, let's help the people out there who are suffering.
Well, people who have to worry about still getting the Bush tax cuts obviously already have well paying jobs that wouldn't matter to them, so they aren't the people who are suffering.
The people who are suffering are the people who don't have jobs, and the only way to help them is to get rich people to hire them.
Really, it isn't complicated.
Charles and um Itawa.
Ottawa.
Etawa, Edinburgh, Tennessee.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
You have brought many smiles, laughter, and uh much thought into my life days.
Thank you very much, sir.
Uh I want to uh convey something about UT.
UT I uh was walking by a new stand and saw the uh the headline Sunday.
And it is UT's in a mess because of the stimulus program.
They were already in uh you would say you talk about University of Tennessee.
Yes.
The balls, okay.
Yes.
Uh now in 2008, they had already planned on making massive cuts, about 700 on the uh faculty, and they were going and administration, they were going to do many things um to streamline the program and save money but after they paid off the football coach Lane uh Lane Kiffin.
Yeah, that's what a joke.
And he crashed his legs.
Right.
Well, uh all this was going on.
Well, they accepted stimulus money, they could not do the cuts, and the money was used to pay lecturers, do uh re renovate some uh classrooms, hire fundraisers, and do various things.
Guess what?
When the stimulus money's gone, they're gonna still have to make the cut.
Right.
The school is in bad shape, and the governor's office said we hoped the money would come uh when the money came to an end, the economy w would be back uh going strong.
What a crock.
The very fact they took the money was was was a contributing factor of the economy not coming back.
But that this is starting to happen.
All of the stimulus money, not over the hired bunch of people, it's starting to it's it's starting to end now in jobs that people are gonna it's artificial.
The artificiality is ending, and now it's uh it's the reality is starting to start to hit.
Just as he says, uh Rochelle of Fort Worth, Texas, your next Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Russ.
Um, yeah, you're so right.
President Jackass is doing this on purpose.
Anyone with eyesight could see, I mean, we fall into that category that magically wealthy that he keeps calling us, and we're absolutely middle class.
We paid for all of our cars, we don't go into debt, we're very careful, but we're not living high off the hog.
In fact, we just bought our first flat screen TV in December after contemplating it for a year.
How big is it?
You know, I you'd have to ask my yes, but she didn't even know.
Your husband probably knows every dimension of the flat screen TV, and you don't.
Because it took him a year to decide to buy it.
It was his combined Christmas, birthday, and father's day gift.
And you know what?
We ended up canceling cable in the end to save money.
And a Wait a second.
You bought the flat screener, but you cancel cable.
We did, because we're trying to make sure that we stay within our means every single month.
Well I understand that very careful.
What are you watching on the flat screen?
You know what?
He ended up getting the um antenna, the HD antenna.
So you've got you got rabbit ears out there, essentially.
You got a rooftop HD antenna.
We do.
But it works.
But you know, we just we're not these people that he tries to make us out to be.
There's no Cayman Island resort for us.
We're normal people.
And you know, Rush, the reason why we live, part of the reason why we live in Texas, aside from the fact that we love it, is because there is no state income tax.
That's right.
Yeah.
We're trying to keep as much of our own money as we can.
I know.
There's no state income tax in Florida.
And I remember when I moved here, and I publicly proclaimed that was the reason.
I had all these people accuse me of uh being unpatriotic, of running away from my obligations.
Like is it I was obligated to stay in New York and pay confiscatory taxes.
By the way, story out of New York for the first time.
In a long time, we have to look at the period of time, New York per capita income is down.
Folks do not doubt me.
When I know it's time to leave someplace, follow me.
Yeah, I know I I I said I'm gonna play these sound bites, so I gotta get to them.
I know I have to get to them.
I mean, if I don't get to them today, I'm gonna get all kinds of grief.
You know, for for teasing people and and ho having them hold on for something that didn't happen.
Which I don't purposely do.
So I just want to take one more phone call that we'll get to the sound bites that illustrate how the Democrats totally sustained, caused, and propelled, and did anything they could to stop anybody from fixing the subprime mortgage problem.
Diana and Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the one and only Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi.
Um the reason I was I was listening to you, and it's it's this government truly is getting rid of the American dream.
I mean, my daughter went to law school, um, did it with student loans, her husband, same thing, and they make within that same range you were discussing, and they're barely making it.
They're living paycheck to paycheck with student loans and everything else that they have to pay.
Everyone assumes, because they make this kind of money that they live just wonderfully, and I mean they don't.
They still have all these bills and stuff.
And what's sad is I have teenage daughters that uh me and my daughter, my oldest daughter discussed it.
We're like, we want them to go to college and do things, but when you look at what's going on, it it what can we promise them?
Oh, yes, you can go to college and do something with yourself, but you're gonna be paying out everything.
Diana the more and more people are starting to realize this.
More and more kids in college.
You said your daughter's a lawyer.
And I I know some some uh some friends of mine whose kids are lawyers or they're they're they're in in in war school, and they're sitting there and they're seeing the student loans pile up and they're looking at 15% unemployment, and they're looking what happens to me when I get out of here.
You know, what when I graduate this law school, where am I gonna go?
It it's all I'm gonna have facing these student loans.
There are people are beginning to question, you know, the the genuine high cost of education, how long it's gonna take to pay that back.
I want to address one thing.
We've had a couple callers here, and you've heard them say that they're in this 200 to 250,000 dollar range, and I'm sure that some of you are not all that sympathetic listening to them describe their plight.
Uh some of you who make fifty, seventy-five, whatever, you're looking at somebody making two fifty and they just make barely make ends meet.
You can't imagine it.
You're making fifty seventy-five, and you got if I had two fifty, I'd be in Fat City, and you would for a while.
But here's what you how do I explain this?
Well, it's it's it's yeah, your lifestyle catches up to your money, but why?
You see, at every level, folks, at every level of economic class, there's somebody out there willing to take your money from you for something.
Either a Motel 6 for a hotel room or a Ritz Carlton for a hotel room.
I mean, if you make 50, 75, you'll find a hotel room you can afford.
When you make 250, you'll find a hotel room you can afford.
You might buy a car more expensive than you would buy if you make 50 or 75, but you st there at every level of income, there is a group of people willing to take what you've got.
I mean, you pay them for it, they give you something back, but I mean it's you know what I'm talking about.
So people in the 2250 range can just as easily be in the same financial condition as somebody at 75.
Their house may be a little bit more expensive, but they still owe on it.
Their utilities, they still owe.
The point is here that Obama wants you to believe those people are wealthy and they aren't.
Now you I don't want you to think ill of these people and think that they're spoiled rotten because they didn't start out at 250.
They at one point were at 50.
Maybe less.
Well, I can remember I one of my first jobs as an adult was for 12,000 a year.
I mean, it's it's we're all like this.
So the people at this 250,000 range, they they at one time were less than that.
And it's it's it's true that if you were in that 50 to 75,000 dollar range, if somebody came along and right now, tomorrow, your paycheck goes from whatever it is for 50 to 75 to 250.
You the percentage increase, you're gonna say, wow, look at all this money I've got, and you will find a way to do something with it.
If you are disciplined, you'll save some of it.
But if you've got kids and cars, a wife, if you've got satellites, cell phone, if you've got any numbers, if you've got ex-wife, whatever you mean.
The point is that whatever income level expenses are going to match the income level.
They will find you.
The people that have Ritz Carlton hotel rooms will find you.
The people that will charge you $200 a year to use their credit card will find you.
And you'll happily pay it because, wow, look what I can afford.
It's the way things are.
And it's entirely natural.
And it doesn't mean when you hear people who earn $200 or $250 talking about barely making ends meet.
Believe me, that's true for everybody in this current economy.
It's worse for the people that don't have jobs, but even some of them are going on cruises for in Las Vegas casinos.
You know, I I'm gonna start these soundbites.
I don't think I'm getting all in now.
There's 16 of them.
I don't know what to do.
I just don't know.
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Okay, stand by audio sound by 30.
I'm going to give this a shot.
First, though, Cybercast News Service.
Almost 23 million people.
Uh actually 23 American households, 23 million American households, are about to have their federal taxes raised by an average of $3,900 this year, but they may not know it yet.
They could get a big surprise when they prepare their tax returns next year.
Among those subject to this already in place tax increase are some families making less than $50,000 a year, and virtually all married couples earning between $100 and $500,000 a year.
Marriage penalty is back.
This tax increase in almost 23 million people will happen if Congress does not quickly pass legislation that temporarily increases the amount of income exempt from the alternative minimum tax.
and You have been warned.
All right, here we go.
I'm gonna get started with subprime business because I promised you we would do it.
October 6, 2004, House Hearing on the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.
Allegations of accounting and management failure at Fannie Mae.
Here's a portion of Richard Baker's remarks.
He's a Republican from Louisiana.
It is indeed a very troubling report, but it is a report of extraordinary importance, not only to those who wish to own a home, but is to the taxpayers of this country who would pay the cost of the cleanup of an enterprise failure.
The analysis makes clear that more resources must be brought to bear to ensure the high standards of conduct are not only required, but more importantly, they are actually met.
Okay, Maxine Waters at this hearing.
Okay, now it's time to start the defense of Fanny and Freddie and her pal uh uh Frank Rains.
Through nearly a dozen hearings where frankly we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke.
Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddy Mac, and in particular at Fannie May, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Rains.
So here's Maxine Waters, the first in Democrat.
We don't have a problem there.
This is 2004.
We don't have a problem.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are just my specially our old buddy Frank Rains over there.
Everything's okay.
Ed Royce, Republican California.
In addition to our important oversight role in this committee, I hope that we will move swiftly to create a new regulatory structure for Fannie Mae for Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks.
Lacey Clay, Missouri.
This hearing is about the political lynching of Franklin Reigns.
So the Democrats turned we had a bunch of people.
Look, Frannie Mae, Freddie Mac in trouble.
Subprime mortgage, we're in trouble here.
We're out of control.
Democrats, Maxine Waters Lay, you're not gonna get in there for you.
We just did no way.
You're not we're not sacrificing Frank Rains.
So they were this is the race card, Franklin's Rain's African American.
So it's the Democrats circling the wagons.
They were not about to have it portrayed that anything they were in charge of was in any kind of trouble.
Fannie Mae, a Freddie Mac.
House hearing on the uh Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.
This is uh and management failure at Fannie Mae.
This is Representative Gray uh Gregory Meeks, Democrat New York, had this exchange with uh an oversight director, Armando Falcone.
What would make you why should I have confidence?
Why should anyone have confidence?
And uh and you as a regulator at this point.
Sorry, Congressman did not improperly apply accounting rules, Freddie Mac did.
Oh, Fail did not try to manage earnings properly.
Freddie Mac did.
So this isn't about the agency engaging in improper conduct.
It's about Freddie Mac.
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, subprime mortgages.
There's all kinds of corruption going on.
The Democrats circling the wagons to come now.
This we're doing this because Barney Frank says there wasn't any problem at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
There never, and if there was, it was Republicans.
They wouldn't let us fix it.
I just want you to hear it's a Democrats who didn't want anybody to fix anything.
Uh Christopher Shays.
Then asked the question.
And we passed Sarbanes Oxley, which was a very tough response to that.
And then I realized that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wouldn't even come under it.
They weren't under the 34 Act, they weren't under the 33 Act.
They play by their own rules, and I and I'm tempted to ask how many people in this room are in the payroll of Fannie Mae, because what they do is they basically hire every lobbyist they can possibly hire.
They hire some people to lobby and they hire some people not to lobby so that the opposition can't hire them.
Now this office, O'Fayo, this was created in 1972 to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but they just ignored this regulator.
He comes up, they you guys are in trouble.
No, we're not.
Not in trouble.
You saying Franklin Reigns are doing a bad job.
We're not gonna let you see Frank Rain's doing it.
There's nothing wrong at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
He's doing a great job over there.
There's no and then Chris Chase is once you got lobbyists hired, not hired.
You're doing everything you can to keep anybody from finding out what's going wrong over there.
A lot of people on the payroll at Fannie Mae for we find out they are making campaign donations to Democrats left and right.
So this is the process of the regulators trying to get there, find out what's going wrong, so that we might have some limit on the danger of subprime mortgage that's a Democrats saying ain't no way.
There's nothing wrong here, and you're not gonna find it if there is.
Next, Barney Frank, in 2004, had this the same hearing, had this the same.
You seem to be saying, well, these are in areas which could raise safety and soundness problems.
I don't see anything in your report that raises safety and soundness problems.
Nothing in your report.
This isn't the rule.
What are we talking about?
This is a problem.
Freddy May, Freddy Mac, do the fine.
Do you?
I mean, what are we doing here?
Nothing wrong.
Barney Frank again.
But I have seen nothing in here that suggests that the safety and soundness of an issue, and I think it serves us badly to raise safety and soundness as a kind of a general shibboleth when it does not seem to me to be an issue.
Right.
Now, you go to Barney Frank yesterday, day before this week.
Oh, there wasn't anything going on in Fannie May Freddie Mac, and if it was, it was a Republican, Republicans wouldn't let anybody come in and regulate it.
We're in this mess because of all of this.
That you just heard.
The subprime mortgage debacle is why.
Primary reason why we are in this economic state right now.
And there were regulators that came before Congress during the Bush administration when Republicans ran Congress, and the Democrats were intimidating and left and right.
You heard it here, Maxine Waters.
Nothing wrong there.
Franklin Rain's doing a great job.
We've got sound bites I don't have time to get to of the regulators actually being intimidated by these members of Congress for what they are announcing in terms of their uh in terms of their findings.
So I meant to play this yesterday.
We just ran out of time.
So actually here I'm making up for what I said I was going to do yesterday, getting it done today.
Because I don't want anybody saying that I say I'm gonna do stuff and not do it just to get you hooked and keep you listening.
Because frankly, I don't have to do that.
Show's compelling enough anyway, as is without those kinds of tricks.
I guess this makes this official Wall Street Journal.
I mean, I'm seeing rumors of this, but Wall Street Journal reporting that uh Apple is going to sell a C DMA iPhone starting in January, early part of next year, under uh Verizon.
You know, Verizon uses a different uh technology CDMA than than uh ATT does, so they got to change the guts of the phone, but they are going Verizon, apparently.
Well, if it's in the journal, I mean, how can it not be true?
So there's that.
Some people still don't have their new iPhone 4s yet and already.
Well, then if you don't go to Verizon.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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