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Dec. 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 16, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Uh Jerome in Paless Hill, Illinois.
Are you still there, Jerome?
Yes, I'm here a rush.
All right.
Now, Jerome, let me start out here by saying that I don't expect much of what I say to you today to have any impact on you because it's not going to address the immediacy of your problem, which I fully understand.
All right.
You're out of work.
I've been there.
And I you you want to know what I have against unemployment benefits.
Well, see, I I know how you you everything.
I usually agree with you, like 99% of the time.
But in this case where there's a big recession and the unemployment numbers are real high, and there's millions of people out of work out there, it's going to take mathematically, it's going to take a longer time for the people to get employed and okay.
Let me Okay, you're swerving into my point here.
Let me first ask you, how long do you think unemployment benefits should last?
How long should you have them?
That uh normally I would agree with you, like you said, you know, um the six months maybe one extension.
But in this time of where, you know, like here I am almost a 50-year-old man, thought I had a few more years before I would retire.
And uh then you're out of work and the people don't want to employ older people, you know that you know how they got the stats on you and everything.
Even if you're perfectly healthy.
I mean, there's age discrimination out there and everything, but um normally I would agree with you, but in this, you know, our company was around during the Great Depression, but it didn't make it this time.
Right.
Now, okay, I I understand all this.
This is what I I want to want you to listen to me for just a second here, and then I'll I'll get you back in here for your reaction.
The reason this is even an issue, Jerome is because Barack Obama has destroyed this economy.
That's why this is an issue.
The morality, reason why we're even discussing the morality of unemployment benefits is because this president has destroyed the economy and continues to do so.
It's not your tool company, it's not this or that.
It's it's an economy that is stagnant at best.
We didn't have to delve into these kinds of things when unemployment was at or below five percent.
We had people on unemployment then, as recently as two or three years ago.
We've always had people on unemployment, but we never had to deal with the issue like it is now.
This is a distraction from a much larger issue, and the problem that has to be solved, Jerome, is how do we get the government to get their hands out of our pockets so that people will be concerned be motivated to expand businesses and grow.
One of the reasons your company is out of work, closed up shop, is because there's no there's there there's no reason for them to exist, there's no reason to grow.
They can't, they don't have any customers.
Now, nobody opposes basic unemployment.
Nobody opposes a basic safety net.
Nobody.
I don't.
The issue now, Jerome, is that we have a government that's destroying the forces that create wealth and create jobs.
And the answer to that is not thirteen months more unemployment.
Obama claims that when I hear these people, Jerome, talk about the best economic stimulus we can have is extended unemployment benefits.
I want a rich.
He is consigning American citizens to a life of meaninglessness.
And hoping they will end up being forever voters of the Democrat Party.
We have a government working against you, Jerome, and your prospects for finding a job.
Destroying the forces that create wealth and jobs, fund the safety net, seek to transfer wealth to the government by expanding government.
And shrinking the private sector.
And this is the problem.
The solution is not extended unemployments.
If we keep doing that, we're going to prolong the problem instead of solving it.
And we've been doing it for two years, and they've just added a third, Jerome.
That's what's being it's not done yet, but that's what's being debated.
We used to extend unemployment benefits in in increments of 13 weeks.
Now they're holding us hostage here for 13 months.
The way you address unemployment is not by extending compensation, unemployment compensation for two years, but by creating a growth environment.
And there's not one Obama policy that does that.
His tax policy doesn't promote growth.
His spending policy doesn't promote growth.
There's not one thing this man is doing to promote growth.
And it I am as upset at this as you are, albeit for different reasons.
You see, Jerome, I I I cringe getting phone calls from people like you.
It is so unnecessary.
This is being done right before our eyes.
We don't have the money for this.
All this money being spent today is going to become a huge burden on future generations.
Future generations have to pay for all this, benefits being conferred today.
So there is a moral element to this.
How much do we spend today to destroy tomorrow?
I mean, look at look at Italy.
Look overseas.
Look at Italy, look at Greece, Ireland, Britain.
That's us in ten years.
Give or take five, where we have a permanent unemployment rate of 14%, with people living forever on unemployment assistance.
That's that's no future.
That destroys the country.
Now, I know none of this addresses your circumstance.
None of this that I'm saying is going to make up for the loss of your job.
But the more support that we have for this policy, then the greater the risk that we're going to lose the country's.
Your problem will not be solved by unemployment checks.
Your problem is just being delayed and put off.
The only thing that's going to solve your problem is a thriving and growing economy, and these never-ending unemployment benefits extensions delay a growing and thriving economy.
Putting more unemployment taxes on employers is only going to make them avoid hiring more people.
It's a vicious, vicious cycle.
So I don't have any problem, Jerome, with you having dollars in your pocket.
I don't look at you as a freeloader.
I look at you as an American whose life is being destroyed.
That I'd and I'd rather not see that.
Well and it's not your company that's doing it to you.
Your company didn't want to go out of business.
Your company doesn't like this.
There's no benefit to them here.
They don't have jobs either now.
Right.
Well, all I could say is, you know, I agree with I agree about 99% of what you're saying.
But now that I find myself in this situation, and all the circumstances and everything, and like I said, because of my age and you know, I'm not in the best health either.
That they're very they rather hire some kid or somebody who doesn't really know anything, or somebody right across the just came across the border than a guy like that.
That's another thing.
But this sadly isn't uh isn't new.
What were you doing at this company?
I used to just be like a regular order picker, work on the dock, um forklift, and I the last ten years I was working in the warranty department.
I did warranties that came from all over the world.
You have anything that you really love to do that you haven't been able to do because you've had to work?
Yeah, I would like to have something where I can help people, especially people that really need help, you know.
Because I know how how it feels, you know, when you're in a situation where you know nobody really understands, you know.
I mean, um, you know, I guess because some of us have to experience it, you know, like when people that are very patient, usually because they've been in situations where they needed somebody to be patient with them.
Well, I I understand that.
That's that's born of your immediate circumstance, but prior to all this happening, right?
we all have in our lives jobs, and when we finish the job, a lot of us, that's when we get to what we really like.
Was there something like that for you?
I don't know what it was.
I mean, I don't want to put any ideas in your head, but while you've been driving forklifts and taking orders, is there something out there, a hobby or a dream or anything that you would really, really have loved to done or be doing now.
Well if there you don't have to answer me now, but if there is, if there's been that you have what I would what I would do is take the occasion of this opportunity, take your unemployment benefits check and see if you can apply it to that.
Right.
Uh and and find a way to earn some money doing that.
I know this is easily said, but there are a lot of people who've done it.
Here's one of the downsides.
I um I happened to get a a note from a friend of mine, a good friend of mine who was at a coffee shop, overheard a conversation between two young people who were unemployed, and they were talking about how happy they were with the extension of benefits here so they wouldn't have to go back to work.
They were thinking of get cutting back on a lot of expenses and trying to save up their unemployment checks to start a business.
Right.
Now, that's not how this is supposed to work.
This is exactly my point.
This is a disincentive for people to find work, and what people need to do is find work, and the finding work is only gonna be possible if we have an expanding, thriving, growing economy.
Right.
The vicious circle.
But in the meantime, you know, that's not something that's gonna happen overnight, uh or even next month.
But so you're you're motivated to do something.
You want to help people.
You don't find yourself now in a position uh to be able to do so because you yourself are out of work.
But there are plenty of places, I'm sure in Payless, Illinois who need who are already doing things to help people who probably need other people like you.
May not pay anything, but you can at least you can at least uh live off the best you can what your unemployment check is, and at least then go do something that will make you feel as though you're being productive in one way or the other because you're satisfying a desire that you've got to help people.
Right.
And the process of doing the process of putting yourself in the market that way, you never know who you're gonna mim meet, and you never know what opportunities are gonna come knocking on the door, and they will, they always do.
Right.
At some point, we all have to get a whenever something disappointing happens or something earth-shattering, shocking, turns our world upside down.
At some point, you get over the immediate emotional crash of that and realize that you still have to get up every day and do something.
And you don't sound to me like somebody wants to sit around, that's what bothers you about this.
And you don't sound like somebody who wants to have your vote purchased this cheaply.
I know you don't if you've been listening to this program for twenty-three years, twenty-two years or what have you.
So best thing you can do is if they're gonna pay you money, unemployment compensation, use it, live on it as best you can, put yourself out there focusing on what you would like to do, and you'll at least get some satisfaction out of your life that way rather than being down on yourself, which you shouldn't be, by the way, but a lot of people in your situation blame it on themselves, or if not, they still get down on the circumstance.
Turn it into a positive as best you can because you just told me there's something you want to do.
And it's tough.
I mean, change is tough.
Change is always tough.
We all have our formulas that we settle into, our patterns uh anything interrupts that out of necessity is uh is an obstacle, but it's there to be overcome.
Uh you've got you listed all the things that you think are going against you.
Your health is not the best, your age, and you got these young guys coming along that can be hired cheaper and so forth, But there are some positives you need to look for in yourself and find, and you just named one for me, and then and then focus on those.
There are two things you have to do.
You have to eat every day, and you have to pay your taxes.
Even on your unemployment compensation checks, you're going to be paying taxes.
So take the occasion of your circumstance here and try to make the best of it that you can and look around you, because there are a lot of people in your circumstance who are trying to do just the same thing.
And we still live in a place where that can be done.
They haven't destroyed the country yet.
They haven't destroyed the economy yet.
A lot of people trying to keep that from happening.
So I I just I want you to understand exactly where you are, and I know that what I'm saying here to you is does not add up to a dime for you.
I just wanted you to understand why, since you called and asked me.
I'm saying the things about this that I am.
It's ultimately because I want the best for every American.
And I just I I just I flinch when I see people's lives being bought this way on the cheap by a political party led by a shameless president who tells you he cares about you, tells you he's gonna have policies to grow the economy, and in two years he's done nothing but bring it to a screeching halt and put it into reverse.
Makes me mad.
You're an American citizen and you don't deserve to have this done to the economy and to the country in which you live, which you are vital cog, turning you into not that.
And I wouldn't let them if I were you.
Brief time out, back after this.
Just to rehash some old territory that you uh people who have been here regularly know.
I've been unemployed a long time, a lot of times.
And I came out of it uh better.
When I was unemployed the first time, I didn't want unemployment checks.
It was embarrassing to me.
I I didn't I didn't want to admit it.
To me, there was a stigma to it.
And radio business is famous being a revolving door and people losing their jobs, at least it was this way, for reasons had nothing to do with their work.
It was just the vagaries of the business.
But there was something at some point I could probably isolate two or three occasions.
I finally got so fed up, I vowed that one of my objectives was to be I am never ever gonna be dependent on anybody for anything I need.
Not one thing.
That became an objective.
It became now it was a broad-based goal.
I mean, it my goals were never finite.
I never said in five years I'm gonna be there, six years I'm gonna be there.
I just had this one giant goal objective that whatever I did, I was gonna be among the best that ever did it.
And I figured everything else would come into focus, fall into place if that happened.
And then as things started to fall into place, then I said, okay, I I'm not I'm not, I'm I'm gonna not be dependent on anybody for any.
It's not that I didn't want to have the embarrassment associated with it.
I just didn't, I just didn't want to be dependent because I didn't want to be obligated.
I didn't want to owe anybody anything.
In financially, in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Everybody has help, we all get assistance, but you know, on the on the climb up.
But I never ever assumed that anything was forever.
I never assumed that just because something was that was always going to be.
And in the process here of my own learning or education, it became more and more obvious to me that nobody else was gonna be as concerned about me as I was.
Nobody was gonna have the interest in me, my life, my success, or my failures as I was.
So I wasn't gonna farm that out.
I wasn't gonna put my my future in somebody else's hands, because you know, who knows how they're gonna end up, and who knows how the relationship you're gonna have with people like that is gonna end up being.
So, you know, there's a lot of, you know, you you could ask the unemployed some really tough love questions if you wanted to.
And if you did, people would accuse you of being heartless and with no compassion.
But I've always said that most of the limitations that we have are those we put on ourselves.
It's like this guy Hunter Smith for the Redskins.
Well, a lawsuit generation he's part of.
Everybody wants to blame somebody else for what happens to them, and then if they can't sue them.
Uh I've always believed that that you've had to one of things, I well, because my business, you had to move.
Sometimes just to stay lateral, you had to move, sometimes just to stay employed, you had to move, but certainly to move up, you had to move.
I mean, geographically move, pull up roots, stakes, wherever, and replant them somewhere else, knowing nobody.
Brandt, that was just what this business always was.
And I never assumed that when I was 35 or 40, that the place I was working was always going to be there.
So I just determined at some point I wanted to be the business.
The only person I knew I could count on was me.
I knew I could count on me being here and being solid, whatever year in the future you wanted to name.
But I couldn't tell you that about somebody else, because that's their business.
So everybody learns different things, takes different things from their own experiences, and mine tell me that there is a whole lot of human potential untapped because too many people have it drilled into their heads they can't do stuff, can't do this or that.
Folks, here's another thing.
This is why I so detest this class warfare stuff sponsored by this president and his party.
The so-called war on the rich is nothing more than a war on employers.
It's a war on small entrepreneurs.
And ultimately that means the war on the rich is a war on the middle class.
And until more Americans understand that, the left will continue this destructive job killing agenda.
There is no war on the rich.
There is no, well, there is, but I mean, the tail into that war, the real victims on the battlefield are the middle class.
What is this?
Three years of unemployment compensation called compassion.
Now here's a here's a story.
We're going to be getting more and more of this.
Funding cuts leave many without home heating assistance in Macon, Georgia.
This is Georgia.
The Syoth.
Funding cuts leaving many without home heating assistance.
It's not even wintertime yet.
Get ready for more of this.
I checked the email during the break.
Rice, this is all very good and inspirational.
But you have to understand not everybody can pull off.
By definition, Rush, not everybody can do what you've done, and that is become totally independent.
I understand that.
But a lot more people can than are.
Imagine, folks, something very simple.
Imagine if we did not have political parties who benefited from misery.
Right now, the biggest beneficiary of human misery in this country is the Democrat Party.
They foster it, they promote it, they benefit from it.
Human misery, joblessness, no f no outlook.
Imagine if the opposite were true.
Imagine if we had political leaders who attempted to inspire people to be the best they could be for the sake of the country.
Imagine if we had political leaders who told the people of this country that they are Americans and what that meant.
Too often we have people, political leaders telling Americans that it is a consignment to misery to be an American because of your skin color or because of your gender or because of your sexual orientation.
We have a political party which is doing its damnedest to create victims out of as many people as possible.
We have a political party that does its best to tell the citizens of this country how rotten their country is, how unfair, unjust, how immoral their country.
And we have a president who believes that and essentially is running his country that way.
He runs around the world apologizing for this country, thinking the other leaders in the world want to hear it.
That that's how he can personally endear himself to them.
He's been taught that they hate the country.
What better way to ingratiate himself than to let him know, let them know that he kind of agrees with them.
That this country has been unfair, unjust, and immoral.
That it is l it has it is stolen resources around the world, that it has led to wars, and it is responsible for billions of people dying and so forth.
The exact opposite is the truth.
Imagine, you know, we all need inspiration.
Not everybody's a self-starter.
I understand this.
But we are so far behind the eight ball.
We've got a political party, I don't know how else to say it, that benefits from the misery of people.
We have a political party that benefits from human suffering.
In fact, they stake their survival to it.
They plan their growth on it.
You know, back in the in the uh in the FDR days, back when unemployment was called relief.
You had to work for it.
And recently in this country, we had welfare reform.
You had to be trying to get a job, or you had to have work before you could get some degree of unemployment.
And that was thought to be unfair, and it was to be too much pressure.
And now to boot the unions wouldn't allow this kind of thing.
The unions wouldn't allow people on unemployment to have to go get jobs in the public sector, such as shovel ready jobs or cleaning up or infrastructure repair jobs.
No, no, no, unions wouldn't put up with this.
And they're part of what?
They're part of the Democrat Party.
That's why all this stuff grates on me.
You know, I I have fun, this story of this little reporter from the LA Times today.
Luxury shoppers are making a comeback.
What?
The Democrat Party's been telling us for two years the rich don't need any money.
They spend all the time.
They don't need a tax cut.
The rich they've they're mean and they're the reason people are poor.
No, what we need are extended unemployment benefit, extended unemployment checks.
That's the root economic growth.
Don't make me choke on my own pile.
That is insulting.
As much as it is wrong, and that's, and they know it.
They say this stuff for their own benefit.
Class warfare.
I'll tell you something else about the war on the rich.
It's about stoking resentment as an excuse for failure.
This guy, Hunter Smith, ex of the Redskins, basically was saying the same thing.
Okay, everybody wants to blame somebody else for what happens to them, and some people want to go sue them for it.
And the Democrat Party promotes that.
They promote people blaming anybody else for somebody else's misery when it's them, the Democrat Party that are fundamentally responsible for it.
I don't know.
It's it also grates on me when I hear that as a conservative, we all have no compassion, that we don't care about people.
It's the exact opposite.
We love people.
We route, we we we conservatives recognize the God blessed opportunity we have to be Americans.
We understand what it means for human fulfillment, lifestyle, prosperity, standards of living.
We understand what it means to have as many people in this country who are told daily, well, that's not for you.
Because there are too many people out there that are standing in your way and denying you they won't want you, they're gonna discriminate against you or whatever.
It just it rubs us raw.
And you know you never hear the Democrat Party talking about the greatness of this country, and you never hear Obama talking about it because they really don't see it.
Look at this this little waif.
Julian Hassan just got bailed out by who?
A bunch of American hating liberals.
Julian Assange is running free on bail here because people like Michael Moore and other American liberals hate this country so much that he is a friend of theirs.
A guy that has willingly put our national security at risk along with a cohort, some malcontent buck private upset about something, who somehow had access to all this information.
And frankly, it's something that that well, I'll just speak for myself.
But I, in my heart and in every ounce of my intellectual existence, I do not comprehend and I cannot comprehend hatred for this country.
I can't, I don't care how hard people want to try to persuade me that there's a justification for it, I'm never going to understand it.
I don't care what group of people you're talking about.
I don't care if I don't care about our past.
Our past is our past, and there is no nation that has overcome the problem of its past any better and any more profoundly than this one.
And not only have we helped ourselves overcome our problems, we do it around the world.
I don't know what there is to genuinely hate about this country, but there are people who do, and they have a home.
It's in the Democrat Party.
And that this party gets away with the notion that they're the ones that have all the compassion.
They're the ones that have all the heart.
They're the ones that care about the little guy.
They're the ones that are going to make sure that the rich and the super rich and the Republicans don't just vomit and tread and spike all over them.
When in fact it infuriates me and makes me sick to realize that there is a political party in this country that benefits from the human suffering in this country, that they plan it.
That it is a matter of policy to them to see to it.
This is what grates on me about effectively three years of unemployment benefit.
You subsidize an activity, you're going to get more of it.
They understand this.
They understand that within any large population of people, you're going to have a certain percentage who are not self-starters, who will be happy to be paid to do nothing.
And they'll use them.
And they'll capitalize on that, they'll exploit them, and they'll in the process they get called compassionate.
When in fact all they're doing is destroying these people's dignity in their lives.
And these poor people, you know, they end up thinking that they're the chosen ones.
You go back, ask any lower middle class or poor Democrat voter.
Ask them what the Democrats done for you.
And I guarantee you'll get you'll get some gobbledygook about how mean the Republicans are.
You'll get you'll get some incomprehensible drivel about how, well, they they they care.
I mean, they they make sure that there's no discrimination and just rot gut stuff that makes no sense.
So, yeah, all this stuff grates on me as a human being, as an American and as someone who has had the good fortune to learn firsthand what's possible in this country.
And it's not just possible for a select few, but it's made all the more difficult to access because there's a political party that believes in doing everything it can to prevent upward mobility.
What do you think the income tax is?
You know, I mentioned earlier that we got this piece in Daniel Henniger, what are taxes for?
Well, rush, taxes are to fund the government so that has responsible services and provide or taxes uh are uh.
You know what the purpose of the income tax is?
is to prevent people from amassing and acquiring wealth.
Pure and simple.
Yeah, these people come along and say, We're gonna raise taxes on the rich, we're gonna make wait a minute, the rich are already rich, how'd they get there then?
What what did they do?
See, there's not a wealth tax.
Raising income taxes on the rich doesn't soak them.
Doesn't stop them.
The wealth we're talking about, they clip coupons.
They've got their investment portfolio living on.
They're not living on earned income.
The rich don't earn salaries.
The wealth real, I mean the genuine rich that you're thinking about when the Democrats start talking about it.
The purpose of the income tax system is not to fund the government.
What it ought to be, the purpose of the income tax system ought to be, and Hinneger mentions this.
The primary purpose ought to be a tax system that first and foremost promotes economic growth in the country.
And then ideally the government would live off of that.
The taxes that result from growth.
What we have now are is a tax system that stops or prevents growth.
And it's called the war on the rich, which trickles down to end up being a war on the middle class and the poor.
Who is it that's unemployed?
Yeah, I'm gonna get to this new car lawsuit, but it's another thing.
Now we got this stupid idiotic group, this Center for Science of the Public Interest, which found some malcontent parents, some irresponsible parent out there to join his lawsuit against McDonald's out in San Francisco because of baiting the children to eat unhealthy McDonald's stuff with toys in the Happy Meal.
Well, we might as well just put a put a put a stop on every bit of economic activity we've got.
And it's always the American left doing it.
We don't have a wealth tax, folks.
We have a productivity tax.
And the more productive you are, the more taxes you are gonna pay.
And that is how these people in Washington do their best to make sure as few people actually become wealthy and independent as they can.
All right, Jane in Lake Ozark, Missouri.
Uh thank uh for waiting.
All of you on the whole, thanks for waiting.
I appreciate it.
Welcome to the program, Jane.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Merry Christmas.
Same to you.
Um I'm a retired finance officer.
I'm an old-time bean counter for the federal government.
During the Carter era, I was laid off for a week with pay.
Weeks later, I was laid off again for two weeks without pay.
Both times a skeleton crew was left behind to make sure that basics were taken care of.
The government really does not shut down.
Checks may not go out.
They will go out later.
There will be a backlog when they do come in.
But this is a scare tactic this administration is using.
They're trying to demoralize the citizens.
And I would challenge your listeners to call their senators and congressmen.
Let them know how unhappy they are about this and let them know that they know that the CSR can be invoked.
Let me tell you this.
The government does not have to shut down.
Even if there is, it's gonna be for a few snow days.
Yes.
In fact, it's snowing there now.
How come these creeps don't go back home today?
I think it's no longer.
You know, the first snowfall of the winter and these clowns will say, oh, government shut down today, it's snowing out there.
Can't drive in safely.
Hill, leave now, go home.
Everything will be back to normal on January 5th.
Let me ask you this.
If the government shuts down over all this, are you gonna blame Republicans for it?
No.
I blame the administration and the Democrats.
They're trying to demoralize the citizens.
They're also trying to replace the budget process with omnibus spending bills.
Yeah.
I worked a budget process for a number of years, and there's what they call a spending plan.
And if if a program or our budget line does not spend its money according to schedule, it is questioned, it is looked at, and if monies need to be pulled back, they do, and they put it in a general fund.
This is called a budget process.
They're not gonna do that with an omnibus spending bill.
By design, we talked about this in great detail yesterday.
The Democrats didn't have the guts to put forth a budget before the election and have the guts for the people of this country to find out what they really wanted, what they had in store.
So no, no, no.
Now they wait and they try to, with this omnibus business, dictate a budget for all of next year as a lame duck, Congress.
and pass it at Christmas time and threaten the shutdown.
That's another thing.
I I know this is just me, but doesn't it bother you folks that so I don't know how many people it is.
We're led to believe that it's a lot.
That the government shuts down somehow, people can't get up and leave the house that day.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
The government shut down.
Oh my god, what are we gonna do?
You know, I don't know how many people there are like that, but they ought to be spanked.
A little reality jammed up in office here or there.
Gee, for prominently sake, government shut down hell.
It's like a cruise ship leaving, if you ask me, and you'll be on it.
Here, if I'm a Republican leader in the House and I hear the president say his presidency will fall on this tax bill not passing, then I make sure it doesn't pass.
I make because he knows he's gonna get the blame for it.
If the tax rates go up, we can put it all on him.
He's as much as saying we can.
So let it fail.
We can fix this in the first two weeks of next year.
It's simple.
The president says his presidency rises and falls on this.
Fine, it falls.
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