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	<title>OrthodoxNet.com Blog &#187; Gov&#8217;t Reform</title>
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		<title>Dependency and Votes</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2011/06/dependency-and-votes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Sowell &#8211; Those who regard government &#8220;entitlement&#8221; programs as sacrosanct, and regard those who want to cut them back as calloused or cruel, picture a world very different from the world of reality. To listen to some of the defenders of entitlement programs, which are at the heart of the present financial crisis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America Slouching Towards Fiscal Armageddon</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2011/03/america-slouching-towards-fiscal-armageddon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Banescu - America is in grave danger. Our government&#8217;s out-of-control spending and our politicians&#8217; refusal to implement meaningful budget reforms are leading us towards a fiscal crisis that can undermine our very way of life. We are spending ourselves into oblivion. With each passing day, we are $5 billion in deficit spending closer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for War Against Democrats&#8217; Fiscal Sabotage</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2011/03/time-for-war-against-democrats-fiscal-sabotage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Limbaugh - It is amazing that the American people would continue to elect Democratic politicians to national office, considering Democrats&#8217; cynical disregard for the federal budget crisis. They aren&#8217;t even slightly serious about becoming part of the solution. Consider the Senate Democrats&#8217; most recent proposal for budget cuts to avert a government shutdown. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Put-Off, Postpone and Procrastinate Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2011/03/the-put-off-postpone-and-procrastinate-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Victor Davis Hanson - The Obama administration figures that it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own. And why not, since we have had periodic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Party of Big Government</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2011/02/the-party-of-big-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Vasko Kohlmayer - Having apparently realized that this country is bankrupt, President Obama recently proposed cutting deficit spending by $1.1 trillion over the next ten years. Some people were impressed. Some people complained it was too much. After all, $1.1 trillion looks like a big pile of money. The president&#8217;s proposal, however, is only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humility in a Time of Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2010/09/humility-in-a-time-of-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/1/2010 &#8211; Samuel Gregg &#8211; Since 2008, there has been much discussion about the contribution of unethical behavior to our present economic circumstances. Whether it was borrowers’ lying on mortgage-applications or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s politically-driven lending policies, there seems to be some consciousness that non-economic factors played a role in facilitating what we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/12/how-to-fix-health-care-lasik-surgery-for-the-medical-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what&#8217;s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market? ObamaCare supporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama Bombed on Health Care</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/09/why-obama-bombed-on-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal &#124; by HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. &#124; Sep. 29, 2009 The public wasn&#8217;t dumb enough to believe the public option would save money. Someday this country will have a health-care debate that&#8217;s not abject in its idiocy. It will involve a term used by Congressional Budge Office chief Doug Elmendorf, who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyranny of the Obvious</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/06/the-tyranny-of-the-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acton Institute &#124; Hunter Baker &#124; May 27, 2009 Those who promoted the War on Poverty and other grand plans to end poverty, writes Hunter Baker, &#8220;had no inkling that these good-hearted strategies would lead to enduring cycles of poverty and family disintegration that threatened to consume entire generations. Wishing for good outcomes resulted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of California</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/02/the-decline-of-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal &#124; February 17, 2009 If you thought Washington&#8217;s stimulus debate was depressing, take a look at the long-running budget spectacle in California. The Golden State&#8217;s deficit has reached $42 billion, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to furlough 20,000 state workers (go ahead, make our day), and as we went to press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fierce Urgency of Pork</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/02/the-fierce-urgency-of-pork/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/02/the-fierce-urgency-of-pork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#124; Charles Krauthammer &#124; Feb. 6, 2009 &#8220;A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.&#8221; &#8212; President Obama, Feb. 4. Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared &#8220;we have chosen hope over fear.&#8221; Until, that is, you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fear of Doing Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2009/01/the-fear-of-doing-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thinker &#124; Jim H. Ainsworth &#124; Jan. 16, 2009 A lot of our economic troubles could be solved if we could just keep our emotions in check. Seriously. It seems that fear, greed and the thirst for power have swept the country like an airborne virus. The fear of doing nothing rules the day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/10/mccain-letter-demanded-2006-action-on-fannie-and-freddie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/10/mccain-letter-demanded-2006-action-on-fannie-and-freddie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Events &#124; Oct. 10, 2008 Sen. John McCain&#8217;s 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below. McCain&#8217;s letter &#8212; signed by nineteen other senators &#8212; said that it was &#8220;&#8230;vitally important that Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Ruin the U.S. Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/10/how-to-ruin-the-us-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! Finance &#124; Ben Stein &#124; Oct. 6, 2008 1) Have a fiscal policy that creates immense deficits in good times and bad, burdening America&#8217;s posterity with staggering burdens of repaying the debt. 2) Eliminate regulation of Wall Street and/or fail to enforce the regulations that already exist, instead trusting Wall Street and other money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Solution to Mortgage Crisis: De-Bundle Loans and Identify Known Risks</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/09/ethical-solution-to-mortgage-crisis-de-bundle-loans-and-identify-known-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Banescu Blog &#124; Chris Banescu &#124; Sep. 30, 2008 I have just sent this appeal to my representatives in Washington. Feel free to copy and paste and send to your representatives. Dear Representative, Please do NOT support the $700 Billion Bailout Plan until the Banks and the Lending institutions indentify the Toxic Loans and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/09/democrats-covering-up-the-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far back as 2004 the Republicans tried to fix the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac situation and create tougher regulations to prevent disaster. The Democrats (Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, etc.) instead defended the status quo and refused to make any changes. See them express their views in their Own Words. Democrats Covering up the Fannie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Economy Should Wait</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/09/maybe-the-economy-should-wait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Events &#124; Dennis Byrne &#124; Sep. 24, 2008 Never has the United States had to make such a momentous decision so quickly, except on more memorable dates such as December 7, 1941 or September 11, 2001. Is this really that urgent? Our betters tell us that the “financial meltdown” leaves us only two choices: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Takings, Taxes, and Entitlements</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/08/on-takings-taxes-and-entitlements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thinker &#124; Steven M. Warshawsky &#124; Aug. 2, 2008 America recently marked the third anniversary of one of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions of recent memory: Kelo v. City of New London. Kelo is the now-infamous &#8220;takings&#8221; case, in which the Supreme Court declined to rule unconstitutional a Connecticut town&#8217;s decision to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Socialism</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/07/republican-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Events &#124; Brian Darling &#124; July 21, 2008 Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) has pledged to block a Bush administration proposal being steamrolled through Congress to grant the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve sweeping new powers. Slowing things down would allow Congress to debate the issue fully before approving measures that could put taxpayers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing the Buck has Turned to Passing the Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/05/passing-the-buck-has-turned-to-passing-the-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HumanEvents &#124; Sen. Tom Coburn &#124; Apr. 28, 2008 America became a great nation because at key moments in our history our national leaders were willing to make sacrifices to preserve freedom and opportunity for future generations. Yet, that tradition is being abandoned today in Washington. Congressional leaders have decided that sending money home for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat Tax is the Way of the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/02/flat-tax-is-the-way-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/02/flat-tax-is-the-way-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most formerly communist countries are adopting capitalistic and fair Flat Tax systems, while the US continues with its socialist, unfair, and punitive Tax scheme. Heritage Foundation &#124; Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D. &#124; Mar. 20, 2006 Thanks to globalization, many nations are adopting better tax policies. Certain politicians still believe in high tax rates, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Rebates are Good, But Permanant Tax Cuts are Better</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/01/tax-rebates-are-good-but-permanant-tax-cuts-are-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/01/tax-rebates-are-good-but-permanant-tax-cuts-are-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Events &#124; Mark Skousen &#124; Jan. 22, 2008 Anytime the government gives money back to the people, it&#8217;s a good thing, so I have no qualms about President Bush&#8217;s tax rebate of $800 per taxpayer, or $1,600 per couple. He ought to recommend it every year, not just when a recession threatens. Bush did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Matter with Socialized Medicine?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/01/what%e2%80%99s-the-matter-with-socialized-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2008/01/what%e2%80%99s-the-matter-with-socialized-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acton.org &#124; Dr. Donald P. Condit &#124; Jan. 9, 2008 Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall for the decadent King Belshazzar. “You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting” (Daniel 5:27). Socialized medicine deserves similar judgment. The United States medical system merits description in apocalyptic terms. However, presidential candidates and religious leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Redefines &#8216;Fiscal Resposibility&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2007/12/the-media-redefines-fiscal-resposibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Events &#124; Seton Motley &#124; Dec. 21, 2007 Want to ensure the growth of government? Forever? The media does, and they have with Liberals devised the perfect way to do it. It is the “pay-as-you-go” Congressional budgeting rule &#8212; Pay-Go. It requires every move that Congress makes be “budget neutral”; every new spending initiative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worth of School Vouchers and Local Control</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2007/11/the-worth-of-school-vouchers-and-local-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2007/11/the-worth-of-school-vouchers-and-local-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Congress Foundation &#124; Paul M. Weyrich &#124; Nov. 15, 2007 Yesterday I wrote a column on the need to eliminate No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the massive federal program President George W. Bush signed into law in 2002 to overhaul America’s public schools and raise the standards for American education. That column was critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger Hysteria: Examining Food Security and Obesity in America</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2007/11/hunger-hysteria-examining-food-security-and-obesity-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2007/11/hunger-hysteria-examining-food-security-and-obesity-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heritage Foundation &#124; Robert E. Rector &#124; Nov. 13, 2007 What is rarely discussed is that the government&#8217;s own data show that the overwhelming majority of food insecure adults are, like most adult Americans, overweight or obese. Among adult males experiencing food insecurity, fully 70 percent are overweight or obese.[8] Nearly three-quarters of adult [...]]]></description>
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