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March 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And one other thing, ladies and gentlemen, replacing oil is not going to make energy cheaper.
Oil is the cheapest form of energy for what it provides that we have.
That's what the market does.
The market provides the cheapest and the most inefficient of everything.
Or it won't survive.
Eventually, it'll go kaput.
It's called competition.
Oil does not have any competition right now, not any serious competition.
Great to have you back.
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So Obama's in North Carolina.
Yeah, we're going to have alternative energy.
Going to bring down energy costs.
Nope, they're going to skyrocket.
President Obama wants higher energy costs.
Barack Obama wants higher gasoline prices.
When it hit $4 a gallon years ago, Baracka Hussein Obama said he was only unhappy about how fast the price got to $4.
He was not unhappy that it did get to $4.
His Nobel Prize-winning energy secretary, a guy named Stephen Kachu, said that they have no interest in lowering gas prices.
They just want to get us off of oil.
Not possible.
That's what the free market does, folks.
It gives you the cheapest and most efficient of everything.
If there were something better than oil, it would have been found.
It would have been invented.
If it were cost, sensible, if it was affordable, if it made sense to produce it, it doesn't.
Oil's it.
It's the beauty of free markets.
Free markets tell you what work.
So whatever he comes up with as his alternative, A, there isn't one, and B, it's simply a way to raise taxes and raise prices and raise costs.
He said, well, why would he want to do that?
Well, to accept the answer to that, you have to.
Yes, I am saying algae is not better than oil.
That's right.
President Obama proposed algae as a substitute for oil a couple of weeks ago.
Algae!
Pond scum for those of you in Rio Linda.
Why would he want higher prices?
Why does he want higher taxes?
Well, you have to understand what he thinks of America to answer that and to believe the answer.
Basically, Barack Obama is a Democrat who wants this government getting bigger and bigger and bigger so it can control more and more and more.
And the less money you have to spend, the easier you are to control.
The less money you have to spend on discretionary items, the more dependent you will be on him and his party.
And that's the ultimate objective.
They want to take your ambition away from you.
They want to take your dreams away from you.
They want to tell you your dreams are unrealistic.
They want you to believe it's outrageous that you think you should be able to accomplish that, whatever it is, or have that, whatever it is.
We need to live like the rest of the world.
We need to find out what the rest of the world has had to go through because of us.
Because to Barack Obama, folks, the United States is the problem in the world, not the solution.
And in that, he agrees with people like Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, the old Soviet leadership, Fidel Castro.
United States is the problem.
He genuinely believes that.
You may find it hard to believe.
Can't believe no president would never elect a we have, folks.
It's not even that hard to believe or understand.
Just pay a little bit of attention.
And if that's too hard, listen to me.
I'll tell you.
I have no interest in lying to you.
Okay, Dennis Kucinich, we move on to the election.
Last night, two-time presidential candidate, icon of the anti-war left, suffered a bruising primary defeat as a new Republican-drawn congressional map threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in Congress.
Get that?
One of the most colorful.
Notice when an Olympia Snow splits the scene, like when she announced her retirement Republican senator from Maine.
Oh, they frame her retirement totally in terms of ideology.
Oh, no.
Another wise, moderate, compromising Republican is leaving.
Oh, no, they say, oh, no.
All we're going to be left with is a bunch of right-wing Yahoo.
It's getting more and more conservative.
Now, here, the Kucinich loss, and if some other Democrat Party losses, Barney Frank, he's retiring.
They merely talked about in terms of another character.
Another rack-and-toured, another character leaving the House of Representatives.
Nothing about the fact that the Democrats are losing some of the most left members they have.
My contention is, folks, there's every reason here to actually feel optimistic.
I know it's hard.
But look who's leaving politics.
I know you're going to find some conservatives getting out.
You might find them losing in a primary or whatever.
But Barney Frank is no longer a home for him.
Well, that's right, Mr. Lumbo, because it's rewritten its congressional district.
If he thought he could win, he'd stay.
Kucinich loses in a primary.
Moderate Olympia Snow gone.
This country is, people's country not ready to give up and turn it over to Barack Obama on the left by any stretch of the imagination.
It was Marcy Kaptur, who herself is a pretty hardcore leftist, beat Kucinich 60 to 36%.
But it really upset their losing characters.
Oh, we're losing.
We're losing care.
Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, this place needs character in characters.
It's just too bad.
Too bad that we're losing them.
Reuters covers the story.
They don't seem to be able to bring themselves to admit it.
But according to the Toledo Blade, Joe the Plumber won the Republican primary for this same district.
So it's going to be Marcy Kaptor versus Joe the Plumber in November.
But we've lost a character.
Yeah, it would have been entertaining with Kucinich.
And some people say it's always great to see Kucinich's wife.
I've never seen Kucinich's wife, so I don't know what...
I've had three people say, I'm really going to miss her more than I'm going to miss him.
Really?
She's a babe?
I don't notice babes anymore.
I have one.
And as such, I don't notice them.
I'll bet you I have seen Kucinich's wife, and it just doesn't register.
I'll bet I have seen her.
I just don't know it.
Anyway, Joe the Plumber.
Joe the Plumber won his primary.
Is going to be plumber versus captor.
Guess where we're going to be on that one?
Joe the Plumber, this is a guy also attacked by Barack Obama in the Democrat Party.
Well, Stergly, I know he's.
They wrote this district in favor of Captor.
I know they did.
I know they did.
What, do you want him to quit?
Are you saying it's impossible for him to win?
Well, Kucinich's people are mad too.
They're going to be out for loaded for bear against Captor, but I am here to tell you: nobody has got this November election right.
Everybody's looking at it through the Obama can't lose prism.
And the prism you need to look at this through is Obama could very easily lose this election, and nobody knows it better than he or him.
He's not going to have a billion dollars to spend.
He's told Pelosi and Reed, I'm not giving you any money.
I'm not even going to fundraise for you.
I'm going to do one event for the House, one event for the Senate, and that's it.
He's not going to fundraise, which they're probably happy about.
He's not going to be on the campaign trail for him.
I guarantee they're probably happy about that.
I'll believe these polls that show Obama 50% approval.
It's a trumped-up 800-respondent poll with adults, not even likely voters.
You see the exit polls of all the Super Tuesday?
Economy, economy, economy, economy.
That's what people care about.
There's no war on women.
They ask these Republican women, the exit polls.
You think there's a war on women?
These women are concerned about the economy.
They don't think there's a war on against them other than Barack Obama doing damage to the economy.
The real war is the one Obama's conducting against us and on our private sector economy.
70, 75% of the exit polls, the economy, the economy, the economy.
Well, guess whose it is?
It ain't Bush's.
They can't lay that one off on me.
Owns it, Barack Obama.
It's his.
After three years, this economy, every bit of it, is Obama's.
And they know that people know it.
So don't tell me that Joe the Plumber doesn't have a chance.
All this talk about the Democrats taking back the House.
Ha!
I'm not saying it can't happen.
Folks, it's not written in stone.
It's not what's likely.
It's not a given.
None of the conventional wisdom is a given.
Obama's reelection is not a given.
They want you to think it is.
You are assisted in that thinking when you look at the Republican field and you don't feel inspired.
But you have to understand this election is going to be about Obama.
And even if the unemployment rate, I shouldn't say if, when they report the unemployment rate at 7.9%, it's still going to be an election about Obama because that isn't going to be true.
And when they report 250,000, 300,000 new jobs, that isn't going to be true.
And even if it is, it's still going to take close to 600,000 jobs a month for a long time to get us back down to 6%.
Legitimately.
Obama's not a slam dunk.
The election is not over.
Either Santorum or Romney can win.
You just have to ignore Republicans that live in New York or Washington, and you'll be okay.
If you talk to Republicans in New York or Washington, you are going to be as depressed as Republicans were after 1964.
I know a bunch of them, and they are depressed.
They can't help it.
They live in the sphere of the New York Times.
That's everything to them.
Well-meaning Republican conservatives.
But they think there's no hope.
And if you talk to them, they will convince you there's no hope.
That's why ignore talking to I mean, I'm about ready to delete emails from New York and Washington Republican friends.
It's just too damn depressing, and they're not realistic.
Okay, let's go to the phones.
And that's right, put on your headphones in there.
It's time to start working.
Time you start sharing the load.
Where are we starting?
Let me pick.
Oh, I don't get to pick.
Milo Twin Falls, Idaho.
You're first.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Nervous dittos.
Thanks, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you today.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, my opinion on this Romney-Santorum race is that you got the conservative base that loves Santorum's conservatism, but he doesn't come across as real presidential.
And I wonder how well can he debate Obama?
You know, how would he stand up there?
Where Romney, the pundits are all telling us that he's not conservative.
And I'm wondering, really, how conservative is he?
He's probably more conservative than what people give him credit for, coming from a state like Massachusetts being governor there.
I'd say he's yours.
What is your real concern here?
I mean, Romney's not conservative.
Santorum's not conservative to beat Obama.
What's your real fear?
Tell me what your real fear is.
My real fear is that I don't think Santorum can stand up against Obama in the long run of the whole race.
Okay, wait.
Do you mean image-wise?
Do you mean intellectually?
Do you mean substance policy?
How?
You know, intellectually and substance-wise, he's probably got him.
But, you know, in the debates, he came across a little bit as angry at times as like he's coming from behind all the time, where Romney is more sure of himself and can articulate what it is he's really trying to get across is more to the point on what he's talking.
And so I think what we'll see happen is that people will lean to Romney.
I know I will.
I will lean to Romney because I believe he's probably more conservative than what we're being told he is.
I really think he is.
Do you think it's interesting that you don't know for sure?
Well, no, I do.
You know, actually, I've done enough study on him that he's more conservative than what pundits are giving him credit for.
And I think that'll come out the longer we go in this.
But I really think it'll come down to where people will believe that Romney can actually have a shot of beating Obama.
And I believe as you do that Obama can be beat.
I also gather from you that you're really concerned about the debates and that you want somebody can skunk Obama in the debates, and you don't – can I say that, skunk?
Skunk's okay.
But you don't think Santorum can?
You know, I really don't.
I don't think he'll come across as presidential and as informative as Ron Romney.
There are only going to be three of them.
He can't hear me because we've got a 1920 phone system here.
He can't.
Only going to be three debates.
And the Republican debates have mattered primarily because there have been so many of them.
But with only three, there are going to be many, many other elements of this campaign that are going to have a lot of impact, good or bad.
I understand the fear our side has on debates.
I know, folks, you're tired of Republican nominees that sound like dopes.
You're tired of it.
Even if they're not dopes.
You, you, you, no, even if they're not dopes, they sound like it.
You're tired of people sound like dopes.
You probably take Karl Marx right now if you could put two sentences together that sounded impressive.
Just trying to illustrate a point here.
And so we've got Karl Marx on the other side.
That's my point.
We got Karl Marx.
Karl Marx is in this debate, Karl Marx Owinski.
This cycle goes by the name of Barack Obama.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Milo.
Who's next?
Where are we heading?
Cora in Fremont, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Oh, thank you.
I'm so excited, Rush.
I was excited last night.
I stayed up till Nick Romney got the victory.
And I thought, oh, I'm going to call Rush because I hear all of this terrible comments about, you know, that he isn't just what they want.
I got him.
I've got soundbites here.
We're going to get to them, too.
They're across the board.
People think Romney's great.
People think he's not doing so great.
Alan, we've had one other opportunity to have him, and now it's our second one.
And we better make the most of it.
Well, Ike Obama will see to that.
I think Obama will see to it that we make the most of the opportunity.
You can't gauge anything on March the 7th and claim it's relevant to what's going to happen on Election Day.
Too much can happen between now and then.
This is ridiculous.
I have to remind people.
I'm even talking about energy level.
The what is it?
What do the polls call it?
The eagerness to vote.
They keep doing stories that Republican excitement is dwindling because the candidates are so uninspired.
You wait.
Wait on a Democrat convention alone.
You don't think that's going to fire up our side?
The Democrat convention alone is going to guarantee a turnout victory for us.
You wait.
Okay, Cora thinks she got Romney.
She's happy.
She stood up late.
She was rewarded.
Cheryl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Indianapolis Colts flags are at half mast.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I wanted to talk about the crony capitalism from a personal standpoint for myself.
My husband and was an engineer with Delphi, which was part of GM.
And when the bankruptcy was taken care of and the auto bailouts and the whole thing that Obama's so proud of, what most people don't know is what happened to the salaried retirees from Delphi in the whole deal.
The union people who retired from Delphi, they had their pensions as well as the salaried all went to the PBGC.
But the union people, even though their contracts were void in the bankruptcy, they had their pensions topped up to 100% in the bankruptcy through taxpayer dollars.
Right.
Whereas the salaried people, like my husband, have lost anywhere from 30 to 70 percent based on your years and so forth of their earned pensions and 100 percent of our health insurance and life insurance.
There's a payback, the General Motors UAW Combo still screwing over the non-union pensions and salaries and bonuses.
We had the stories last week how this is happening.
This is payback time.
It's time you white-collar people found out the excrement you made the other people live in.
Welcome back, folks.
Rushland Boyd doing what I was born to do.
And so were you.
I was born to host.
You were born to listen.
It's working out great.
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Cheryl from Indiana was exactly, exactly right.
And we had the story last week over the non-union pensions and salaries and bonuses.
General Motors, which is the United Auto Workers, they own it.
They own a majority of it along with Obama.
This is payback.
This is payback time.
Don't you understand?
Union workers have been shafted from the beginning of time, from the beginning of this country.
This country was set up to screw union people.
Organized labor has gotten the shaft.
Now it's payback time.
Just as Obama looks at this country and the rest of the world.
This country is a superpower, not because we are inherently great or special.
We're a superpower because we're thieves.
We stole resources that were not ours from all over the world.
We exploited people.
We didn't liberate.
We may not have conquered, but we took what we wanted.
We killed whoever we wanted to kill.
And now it's payback time.
Now it's time for us to find out what $10 a gallon gasoline is like, like they have to spend in Europe.
Now it's time for us to find out what it's like to drive around little golf carts like they have to in Europe.
Time for us to find out what we have made the rest of the world live like.
It's payback time.
And now it's time for management, the white-collar people at General Motors to find out just exactly what kind of hell they put the union people through.
More than 20,000 white-collar workers at Delphi got the short end of the stick, and it was all the UAW and Obama's doing.
United Auto Worker pensions were preserved.
The non-union pensioners lost all of their health and life insurance benefits and up to 70% of their pensions.
Last week, that's what happened.
She's exactly right.
It's exactly what happened.
I don't know if they're going to fight it in court.
I mean, I have no idea.
This, this, this is the peasants.
What do you do if it happens to you?
Well, what if you were a Chrysler or GM bondholder when Obama basically said when he wanted to take over the company?
And he pointed a finger at you and said, you are greedy.
You want your money back?
See, bondholders are higher on the ladder than stock investors.
Buying a bond in a company is a greater investment than owning a piece of stock in it.
And the bondholders, when these companies, the auto companies, were starting to go belly up, were the first in line to be paid back.
Obama stiffed them.
He said, no, no, you're greedy wanting the money back.
Did they go to court?
They had to eat it.
By the way, what is the exit strategy for the war on women?
Just thinking about it.
No, the exit strategy is every you mean every GOP male candidate defeated.
Is that what you mean?
Well, I'm just wondering, when do you pull out in the war on women?
Definition of victory.
How do you define it?
What's the exit strategy?
Okay, Obama, North Carolina.
Let's go to the audio soundbites of Mount Holly, North Carolina, at the Daimler Mount Holly truck manufacturing plant.
Here's Obama speaking about the economy.
We've got one, two, three, all five, Obama.
Yeah, we got five of them, sorry, but here's the first.
This is not the first time we've seen gas prices spike.
It's been happening for years.
Every year, about this time, gas starts spiking up, and everybody starts wondering how high is it going to go.
And every year, politicians start talking when gas prices go up.
They get out on the campaign trail, and you and I both know there are no quick fixes to this problem.
And he's no longer a politician, see?
He's no longer, he's president, he's no longer a politician.
So all these other underlings out there out there talk about the gas price, like he used to, by the way.
Oh, yeah, Obama led the Democrat Party cat calls for Bush to do something about rising gas prices.
Now, well, this happens every year at this time.
Everybody knows that.
Gas starts spiking up.
Everybody starts wondering how high it's going to go, but it does that this time of year all the time.
Here's the next bite.
Listening to them, you think they're work.
As a country that has 2% of the world's oil reserves, but uses 20% of the world's oil.
I'm going to repeat that.
We've got 2% of the world's oil reserves.
We use 20%.
Stop the tape.
That, listen to me.
While I have you, I really want you to hear this because that is a lie.
2% of the reserves.
Let me take a test.
Conduct a test.
Seriously, Mr. Snerdley, when you hear the president say that the United States has 2% of the world's oil reserves, what does that mean to you?
No, you're half right in what the incorrect definition is.
Snerdley just told me that 2% of the world's reserves means that we have 2% of the entire world's oil supply in our strategic reserves.
Most people think that when Obama says we have 2% of the world oil reserves, that that means of all the oil in the world, we have 2% of it.
Not what that means.
Folks, with new technology, we have more oil in the ground that we can get than they have in Saudi Arabia.
2% of the world's reserves means 2% of what has been brought up.
2% of what has been produced.
Not 2% of the supply.
This is an out-and-out lie, and I don't know how else to categorize it.
He is purposely misstating this.
This is a left-wing cat call for as long as I have been alive.
And in this statistic is the implied guilt.
Look at us.
We've got 2% of the world's oil, and we use 20%.
And it's not fair.
We are raping the other nations on this.
That's what that means.
A country has 2% of the world's oil reserves, but uses 20% of the world's oil, it means that we are raping the rest of the world.
We are unfairly taking advantage.
And that's not the case.
In the first place, 2% of the world's reserves is a misleading statistic because it isn't true.
The second thing that you would have to do is, I'm not going to dispute that we use 20%, but what do we do with it?
Are we hoarding it?
Are we not sharing it?
Is nobody else benefiting from our use of oil?
Do you realize if every one of us, I'm going to give you a statistic I've used on this program before to illustrate my point here, if every automobile were shut down today and not a single automobile was driven,
we would still need five to six million barrels of oil a day to satisfy all the other products and services that are used where derivatives of oil are used in.
Even if we stopped driving, we'd still need at least five to six million barrels a day.
But folks, this is not an evil country.
And the president is trying to say that we have used more than our share.
And that's the justification for making us cut back.
That's the justification for high prices.
That's the justification for us having to drive smaller and smaller cars and maybe not even drive cars at all, but drive batteries and maybe get on mass transit.
And bottom line, we have to cut ourselves down to size.
Well, the fact of the matter is, we are a nation of greatness because we are good.
We are an inherently good people, an inherently good nation.
And we do wonders for people around the world.
We have liberated people from bondage and tyranny and slavery.
We have rebuilt whole continents after destructive wars.
We have provided disaster relief for people who've been wiped out.
There's no greater people on this planet than the American citizens.
None greater.
And I really resent this implication here that we are selfish, greedy, unsharing exploiters.
But again, we have much more than 2% of the world's reserves.
Reserves only mean what's been discovered.
Only means what has been brought out of the ground.
Not 2% of what's in the ground, not 2% of the world's supply.
We have far more than 2% of the world supply.
We have more oil in the ground.
And this is not me saying it.
This is several geological surveys and studies in many different publications.
We have more oil in the ground than Saudi Arabia does.
We just don't have a president that wants to go get it.
We don't have a president who wants to allow it to be gotten.
Okay, grab Somebody 29, take it back to the beginning.
Let's listen to the whole thing uninterrupted if I can pull this off.
Listening to them, you think they're working.
As a country that has 2% of the world's oil reserves, but uses 20% of the world's oil.
I'm going to repeat that.
We've got 2% of the world oil reserves.
We use 20%.
What that means is, as much as we're doing to increase oil production, we're not going to be able to just drill our way out of the problem of high gas prices.
Anybody who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking about or they aren't telling you the truth.
Here is the truth.
No, Mr. President, you are not the truth.
And what you've said here is not the truth.
If we can't drill ourselves out of problem, why are we drilling at all?
Why don't you shut it all down?
If it's so irrelevant and inconsequential.
This is not an argument Obama can win if anybody will take it up with it.
We either going to drill for oil or we're not.
And if we're going to drill, we should drill for enough.
But if we're not, why do it at all?
If we can't affect the price of oil by drilling, that means we can't affect the price of oil with supply.
Why are we messing with this?
But again, folks, please apologize.
I apologize to you for folks on this.
I'm so mad I can't see straight.
2% of the world's reserves, and yet we use 20%, and boy, are we evil.
We are we selfish.
See, we need to cut back and stop this.
We need to stop taking other people's oil.
Well, of course, we don't.
We buy it.
That's another thing.
We're not stealing it.
We're buying it from willing sellers.
There's nothing immoral whatsoever about us using 20% of the world's oil if we pay for it.
Nothing immoral whatsoever.
And I can't tell you how I resent this man's effort day in and day out to somehow say otherwise.
Back after this.
Let's go to the phones.
I'm through playing Obama's soundbikes for now.
I'm in too good of a mood.
Elizabeth in Orange, California.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
It's a privilege.
My comment is that for the first time in my entire life, I turned on CNN last night.
Can you believe it?
You left Fox to turn on CNN?
I left Fox.
I'm so disgusted at their preferential treatment towards Mitt Romney that I had to switch the channel.
Like what?
What did they do?
Oh, everything is Mitt Romney.
I mean, it's so blatant in a certain sense, and it's limited in another sense.
Give me a specific or two, if you can, because I really, frankly, what was I?
I didn't see a whole lot.
I saw a Krauthammer, and we've got Krauthammer saying Krauthammer was not particularly complimentary of Romney.
Well, I was watching Megan Kelly, and all the people that were on with her and Britt Hume and all those guys just going on and on about Romney.
He's going to win this.
It's going to come in.
Karl Rove came in and said, oh, well, as soon as we count up the big cities and the cities and the big counties, it's going to switch to Romney.
Well, wait, wasn't he right, though?
You know, just barely.
And I was praying that he would be wrong because I realized what I don't like about Karl Rove last night.
I don't care for his lack of humility.
He thinks that he knows everything, and it rubs me the wrong way.
Well, he does.
When it comes to this stuff, let me tell you something here.
I accept the fact that he knows what he's talking about, but present it to people with an ounce of humility.
Okay?
I don't know.
I just didn't.
I wouldn't know about humility.
You are humble.
Yes.
But what it like, Carl was, I saw a little bit of Carl.
He was his little computer, his white warden.
He was talking about Romney.
I think I know what bothers you.
What?
They were talking, Romney was going to win the cities.
That equals the sophisticated voters.
And Santorum was going to win the Hicks.
He was going to win rural.
Isn't that what bothered you?
Yes, that is part of what bothers me.
Yeah, I know.
And you know what?
I'm not a hick, and I love Santorum.
And even this was subliminal.
At the bottom of the screen, they were rotating the various states and the election results.
And they took out Georgia.
They were not reporting that Newt won Georgia.
Well, yeah, because that was a foregone conclusion, and it wasn't a chance Romney wasn't going to win it.
Let me tell you something.
You should have seen, if you're mad about this, you should have been watching MSNBC this morning, or maybe it was last night.
I forget.
Brokaw was on imitating Mitt Romney, the way he speaks, and he kept making fun of, I've never heard of this, by the way.
Apparently, it's a racist put-noun, white man's overbite.
Have you ever heard of this?
Brokaw was imitating Romney a speaking facial tick or whatever it is, a white man's overbite.
They're all laughing themselves silly over there on MSNBC.
So you'd have probably gotten mad at them, too.
How about this, folks?
2% of the world's population, and we won World War I.
We won World War II.
We've invented most of the medicines in the world.
We feed a huge portion of the world.
Our president has no appreciation for the people that he is supposed to govern or represent.
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