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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good morning everybody. This is that's the bottom line. Your
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We also help our clients with personal and corporate income
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difficulty with thers. We also assist retirees with their medical
insurance options as they transition onto medicarer. Later into show today,
we'll be airing excerpts of my sit down with each
of the candidates for mayor here in the city of Molmont.
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And plus we've got a double dip with the Fountain
of Youth themself, Gene Valerani, who's got both this week's
dirty Little Secret and our Solutions segment where you can
learn where to protect your assets while maintaining growth potential.
But first to the top story. The stock market continues
to do its best ekg impersonation, which gives Democrats hope
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that somehow Americans will forget the last four years of
liberal economic policies with the Biden White House. But according
to a CBS poll, the Democrats are having no such luck,
as most Americans are saying they're at least willing to
give Trump's trade policies a chance to work. Here's Amy
Cook of Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report talking
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about on PBS News hour, which, to my surprise, is
actually still a show.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Who Knew even as consumers, As Tam points out, consumers
are nervous, and his handling of the economy has dropped
off in recent in recent weeks. What we're also seeing
is that fifty one percent of voters in the CBS
polls say that they like the idea of what he's
trying to get at. It's that sixty five percent of
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them don't like the way he's going at it. So
that the idea that there's a need, there's a need
for these tariffs, and that among independent voters obviously, Democrats
aren't giving the president any credit.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Republicans are all with him.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Among independent voters, more than sixty percent of them in
the CBS poll said they're willing to wait a few weeks, months,
even up to a year for these to work themselves out.
And so while the chaos of it is exhausting, is
taking a toll for consumers and for the president's overall
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approval rating, he may actually have some more time for
this to get to a place that people feel like,
oh okay, either that wasn't so bad or maybe weren't
a better place.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
See the Democratic Party has forgotten something. The stock market
isn't the only aspect of the economy. It's important, of course,
very important. But Americans have learned something over the years.
The price of a stock only matters if you're buying
or selling it. You can't take a loss if you
simply stay patient and wait on the market. Losses are
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only realized by folks who are for some reason forced
the sell into a downturn. Americans inherently understand the need
for increased production of goods right here in America. It's
good for trade. Yes, it's also good for national security.
Do we really want our military aircraft made with parts
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manufactured by the same country from which we're trying to
protect our entire inmisphere. It's also good for jobs, and
on that front, we're getting some excellent economic news. Payroll
employment is up, inflation is down, wages are already up slightly.
It's like the entire country is simply ready to finally
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turn the page on the Biden presidency and forget that.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What's this?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're all about that, That's what the legislation is about.
It's about dignity.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Simple dignity. Everyone, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,
regardless of their standing, regardless of the economics, says, regardless
of who they are.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh thank god he's back, said no one anywhere, particularly
among Democrats, who have been spending the last few months
trying to make you forget that we had an invalid
as the president and that they lied to all of
us trying to cover it up. Here's Nancy Pelosi this
week talking about why the cover up had to happen.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I love him, I respect him, I respect his family
and all the rest, but it was at a point where.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We had to win the election.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, well that went well. To be fair, Democrats knew
in early twenty twenty four that they were going to
lose this election. That's why they called for such an
early debate, a presidential debate in June, just so they
could force Biden off the ticket. And they weren't convinced
Kamala Harris would do a lot better. But they knew
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that if Biden were to continue his candidacy to the
bitter end, it would mean an entire wipe out of
the Democratic Party all the way down the ticket to
dog catcher. At least this way they can serve some
House and Senate seats that would have flipped to the
GOP otherwise. But the true believers from the Biden administration
are still convinced they didn't do anything wrong. As for Trump,
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there's simply no way the president can possibly succeed with
his agenda. Right.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Most economists would say, if you're if what you're trying
to do is to reduce the trade deficit, imposing tariffs
is not going to be successful, and it is not
the way to go about doing that. The best approach
there would be a greater fiscal discipline, which we're not
likely to see. And perhaps it's to bring back American manufacturing,
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but I really think that's a pipe dream and not
something that is likely to be accomplished. And we could
even raise questions about whether or not in a broad
based way, that's a desirable goal. And it's really hard
to predict where this is going.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You heard her, right, Janet Yellen, the woman that was
in charge of the Treasury Department under Biden, not only
doesn't think that we can bring home our manufacturing base,
she doesn't even think it's a desirable objective worth the attempt.
Yet the Trump administration says we're already close to ten
new trade deals.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Everybody that the President has talked to in this space
has made commitments, big commitments, hundreds of billions of dollars
up to trillions of dollars to eye. I'm sure the
foundries that we need to make sure that America has
great semi conductors, the best semi conductor industry of the world,
and actually very very secure.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
National security as well.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
And so right now there are things that are coming
online that we negotiated last time. And then there's a
horse race to see who can.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Get here the fastest.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
And I think that the person the horse that wins
that race is going to have the biggest prize.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, I wish the markets would understand that that is huge. Okay,
that is huge that.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
The President has been able to negotiate corporate America to
fire up manufacturing plants here to make some of the
most essential things now, Kevin, the market is also waiting
to see who's going to do a deal first with
the United States, and President Trump said that the first
deal over.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Tariff's is close.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
How many countries are you.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Currently speaking with? Are we going to hear our friends
like India, Japan, South Korea among the first to make
a deal on tariffs.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Right, We've got everybody in the trade team and even
deputies of people in the trade team, talking to just
about everybody on earth. And I think that we've got
more than ten deals where there's very very good, amazing
offers made to the US that USTR Trade Representative jameson
Greer and Howard Lutnik and the rest of our trade
team and the President are stealing over whether those deals
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are good enough.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And so I think that the one question that I have.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Open in my mind is should we go one at
a time or should we announce a bundle all at once?
Because we have so much progress made so quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Stay tuned more after this.
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That's the bottom line.
Speaker 10 (12:44):
We will move.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
We will move.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Po can't even look free.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
We're back with That's the bottom line. Here on news
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I'm Jeff Lewis. Remember for any of your investment, tax
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you're local here in Southeast Texas at four oh nine
eight four zero sixty nine hundred. Over the last week,
we've invited each mayoral candidate sit down with this for
an interview. The only candidate that failed to do so
was former Mayor Robin Mouton. After scheduling with this initially,
she called to cancel, citing a schedule conflict. We attempted
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to reschedule the interview, but Miss Muton has avoided our
repeated attempts to make further contact with her. Therefore, or
Mismuton will not be appearing on our show. I find
it striking that for a candidate for mayor, they would
so flagrantly attempt to avoid a legitimate quest for a
conversation that would be made available to so many constituents,
but I will not comment further. We do have three
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candidates that are serious about getting their message out, and
the first is the man who holds the job already,
the mayor of Beaumont Roy West. We first talked about
the city's financial health.
Speaker 12 (14:29):
Typically, our revenues are projected less than our expenditures. There's
a lot of reasons for that, but I also want
to clarify too that we have not used any emergency funds.
We have reserve requirements that are set by the charter. Currently,
our current reserves require twenty percent for our general fund,
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and then we have also a solid waste fund and
we have a water utilities fund. Combine those three are
required to have forty four million dollars reserve. We currently
have sixty six million in reserves, which is that's right,
which is about twenty two million dollars. That is unrestricted reserves,
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so that money can be spent whenever, because it is
not it's not for anywhere now. It shouldn't be spent
for recurring expenses. But in a city our size, we
have lots of projects that need doing, and having more
money sitting on the sideline I find to be ridiculous,
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and I'm fiscally conservative, but this is the taxpayer money.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Mayor also spoke at length about the importance of downtown
redevelopment and making the city a more desirable place to live.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
I think since I became mayor, one of the things
I deep into is how can we make our city
more attractive? And when I say more attract I mean
so that we want to be able to retain our youth,
be able to attract people to want to come here
to visit. But also want to live and I know
that as we've had this stagnant to declining population for
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a long time here in Boma, it's affected many things.
And currently we have many doctors that are retiring and
we're having trouble getting some specialists to be able to
come fill their positions.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Now. The mayor's top competitor in this race is Councilman
Randy Feltschew, who leads the race according to a recent
poll from the Southeast Texas Political Review. Feltschaw has come
under attack from another candidate in the race on the
grounds that he is the pastor of a large church
in our area. We had a interesting quote in one
of our interviews earlier this week from your competitor, ju Peretis,
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who said anti quote referring to you the preacher who
craves earthly power. What is your response to remarks like that.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
People make those kind of comments because they don't understand
the American history. We understand that in the early days
of our founding fathers, with the Declaration of Independence, with
the Constitution, the Charters of Freedom, that ministers were heavily
involved in the founding and the establishment of this nation.
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If you go back and look at it. Like with
the Revolutionary War, there was a group of ministers, and
there were so many of them involved in the war
that the British called them the black Robe Regiment because
ministers would put on their black robes on Sunday, preach
on Monday morning, take it off, pick up their musket.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And go into the battle.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
So they were heavily involved in our declaration of independence.
And then look at the number of ministers that was
a part of that Constitutional Convention and the Constitution, the
ministers that signed it. Also, if you go to the
state or excuse me, the capital right now in Washington, DC,
and you walk through the Capitol building, it's my understanding
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that twenty percent of the statues that are in the
Capitol Building or ministers. So people don't understand how ministers
through the years have been heavily involved in establishing this nation,
one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
And there was a time when we expected our ministers
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to transition from the pulpit to the podium because they
were the moral compass of our community.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
We expected it.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Okay, when men were took on personal responsibility and ministers
would get involved in politics to help steer this nation.
But over time, as there was a moral decline in America,
we had to write more and more laws to try
to get people to behave. And that's why you see
now in Congress gets made up of mostly attorneys.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Folk saw paints a darker physical picture for the city
than the mayor does.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
And then in twenty five we're budgeting three point five
million dollars in their read, which doesn't include the contract
with the firefighters that we had assigned yet, and and
also what we're not talking about. It doesn't include the
possibility of four million dollars of COVID money that we
haven't been reimbursed for yet.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Also in the race is Chris Jones, who is critical
of both Mayor West and his predecessor, former Mayor Mutan.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
I think we're playing ketchup when it comes to spending
right our expenditures. Have been told to the citizens for
a long time that we are in great financial standing,
and that that has never been the case. Past administrations
told our residents and members of council that we were
in great financial standing, and again, like I said, we
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found out that wasn't the case. I do believe that
we have certain emergencies that needs to be taken care
of right especially when it when it calls for again,
like I said, it's sewer backing into residential neighborhoods, residential homes,
into their tubs, into their shallowers. When it comes to you,
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it sewer leaving outside of its regulated containment. That's considered
for a lot of people in the city of Beaumont,
that's considered an emergency.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I personally went to thank all the candidates for being
gracious enough to sit down with me this past week.
We know it takes a lot of time out of
their campaigns, and we appreciate their opportunities to talk to us. Remember,
you can catch the full unedited versions of the interviews
for each of these candidates on our website, savemiretirement dot
com right below our special offers. Coming up next, Gene
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Valerani is back with a dirty little secret about one
of President Trump's former antagonists. I'm Jeff Lewis, and you're
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to. That's the
bottom line with yours truly, Jene Valoran. And now it's
time for today's dirty little secret. Now what happens when
the hunter becomes the hunted? New York States Democrat Attorney
General Flatsia James, who made it her desire to bring
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down President Trump for allegedly committing a crime for overstating
his wealth on old loan applications, has herself now been
accused of mortgage fraud. According to published reports, Miss James,
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sixty two years of age, is accused of listing a
home she owns in Virginia as her primary residence, despite
her being the New York State Attorney General. But there's
even more, ladies and gentlemen. She listed her father as
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her spouse to obtain more favorable mortgage loan arrangements, obviously
more than just a simple mistake. By claiming that her
father is her spouse. Plus she's a resident of New
York State, not Virginia. It seems now turnabout is fair play.
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Remember remember this, it was Miss James who prosecuted Donald
Trump for allegedly overstating the value of his New York
apartment and his Mara Lago estate, hoping to have mister
Trump jailed and fined. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, meantime,
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has sent a criminal referral to the United States Department
of Justice accusing Miss James of mortgage fraud. James is
accused of falsifying records to obtain more favorable loan terms.
How's that for some turnabout in the world of accusers
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and accused. It appears that as Attorney General of New York,
she was too high and mighty to play by the rules.
It will be interesting as to the outcome of this.
As for mister Trump, as we just said, his administration
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has referred Miss James to the US Justice Department for
the crime of mortgage fraud. And when the Democrats were
conjuring up charges against President Trump during the campaign, it
was based on false allegations. They did everything in their
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power to not only defeat the president from winning back
the presidency. But they also wanted to put him in jail.
You remember all that, don't you. They wanted to put
him in jail and throw away the key. Trump, you
may recall, had the charges against him thrown out after
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winning back the presidency, but not before people like New
York Attorney General Letitia James and prosecutors like Manhattan's Alvin
Bragg subverted laws and violated the Statute of Limitations simply
to fraudulently prevent President Trump from winning the election last November,
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which he did win. And now we find his accusers
being counted among the accused. How's that think about it?
The accusers are now the accused, Ladies and gentlemen. The
Democrat Party in the United States has lost this way
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and operates as an enemy of freedom and justice, it seems,
by continually making allegations against President Trump, they have no merit. This, then,
is what's at stake in the struggle for freedom that
we Americans find ourselves in as we move deeper and
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deeper into the twenty first century. Many believe it was
providence that spared mister Trump's life when an assassin's bullet
missed the headshot and just clipped his ear, and then
a second assassination attempt was thwarted on a golf course. Today,
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the fight is to stabilize the financial markets, reduced the debt,
lafe and res restore I should say responsibility to government operations.
For those seeking socialism or communism to replace liberty and justice,
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their fanatical attempts continue to meet stiff resistance from the
Trump administration and mister Trump's goal to make America great again.
Tell me tell me this, who can argue with that?
In the end, just like those old Saturday Matine Westerns,
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the good guys always won, and maybe the good guys
will always win, but to do so they have to
overcome evil. And I guess modern life in America is
just another big old shoot them up Western where good
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always overcomes evil. And then of course that becomes the
bottom line. And when you think about it, ladies and gentlemen,
we're in a situation right now where we see the
struggle between good and evil occurring right before us. But
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I think it's interesting, if not something else, that the
Attorney General of New York, who had it all all
figured out that she was going to put Trump in
prison and throw the key away that she now finds
herself the accused in mortgage fraud. She's the New York
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State Attorney General, Ladies and gentlemen, she doesn't live in Virginia.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to that's the
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like it is. And I want to say this this morning.
Happy Easter everyone everywhere. We hope your Easter baskets are full,
and we hope this Easter weekend reflects the true meaning
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of the occasion, which of course is the celebration of
Jesus rising from the dead and paying the price for
sinful mankind on the Cross of Good Friday. It was
Jesus who brought about the biggest change in human history.
And the good news is he's going to come back
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a new realization has once again shown its ugly face,
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I think we all know that China is ruled by
the iron fist of communism, and for a while there
it appeared as if there could be a measure of
coexistence between capitalism and communism. But the enemies of free
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just don't want it that way. The enemies of freedom
in China have now reminded their captive countrymen and the
rest of the world as far as that goes. But
under communism, the government has total control of the financial markets,
and mister Jiji Ping, or however that premiere there pronounces
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But first to the top story. The stock market continues
to do its best ekg impersonation, which gives Democrats hope
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that somehow Americans will forget the last four years of
liberal economic policies with the Biden White House. But according
to a CBS poll, the Democrats are having no such luck,
as most Americans are saying they're at least willing to
give Trump's trade policies a chance to work. Here's Amy
Cook of Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report talking
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about on PBS News hour, which, to my surprise, is
actually still a show.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Who Knew even as consumers, As Tam points out, consumers
are nervous, and his handling of the economy has dropped
off in recent in recent weeks. What we're also seeing
is that fifty one percent of voters in the CBS
polls say that they like the idea of what he's
trying to get at. It's that sixty five percent of
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them don't like the way he's going at it. So
that the idea that there's a need, there's a need
for these tariffs, and that among independent voters obviously, Democrats
aren't giving the president any credit.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Republicans are all with him.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Among independent voters, more than sixty percent of them in
the CBS poll said they're willing to wait a few weeks, months,
even up to a year for these to work themselves out.
And so while the chaos of it is exhausting, is
taking a toll for consumers and for the president's overall
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approval rating, he may actually have some more time for
this to get to a place that people feel like,
oh okay, either that wasn't so bad or maybe weren't
a better place.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
See the Democratic Party has forgotten something. The stock market
isn't the only aspect of the economy. It's important, of course,
very important. But Americans have learned something over the years.
The price of a stock only matters if you're buying
or selling it. You can't take a loss if you
simply stay patient and wait on the market. Losses are
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only realized by folks who are for some reason forced
the sell into a downturn. Americans inherently understand the need
for increased production of goods right here in America. It's
good for trade. Yes, it's also good for national security.
Do we really want our military aircraft made with parts
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manufactured by the same country from which we're trying to
protect our entire inmisphere. It's also good for jobs, and
on that front, we're getting some excellent economic news. Payroll
employment is up, inflation is down, wages are already up slightly.
It's like the entire country is simply ready to finally
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turn the page on the Biden presidency and forget that.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What's this?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're all about that, That's what the legislation is about.
It's about dignity.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Simple dignity. Everyone, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,
regardless of their standing, regardless of the economics, says, regardless
of who they are.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh thank god he's back, said no one anywhere, particularly
among Democrats, who have been spending the last few months
trying to make you forget that we had an invalid
as the president and that they lied to all of
us trying to cover it up. Here's Nancy Pelosi this
week talking about why the cover up had to happen.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I love him, I respect him, I respect his family
and all the rest, but it was at a point where.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We had to win the election.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, well that went well. To be fair, Democrats knew
in early twenty twenty four that they were going to
lose this election. That's why they called for such an
early debate, a presidential debate in June, just so they
could force Biden off the ticket. And they weren't convinced
Kamala Harris would do a lot better. But they knew
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that if Biden were to continue his candidacy to the
bitter end, it would mean an entire wipe out of
the Democratic Party all the way down the ticket to
dog catcher. At least this way they can serve some
House and Senate seats that would have flipped to the
GOP otherwise. But the true believers from the Biden administration
are still convinced they didn't do anything wrong. As for Trump,
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there's simply no way the president can possibly succeed with
his agenda. Right.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Most economists would say, if you're if what you're trying
to do is to reduce the trade deficit, imposing tariffs
is not going to be successful, and it is not
the way to go about doing that. The best approach
there would be a greater fiscal discipline, which we're not
likely to see. And perhaps it's to bring back American manufacturing,
(07:12):
but I really think that's a pipe dream and not
something that is likely to be accomplished. And we could
even raise questions about whether or not in a broad
based way, that's a desirable goal. And it's really hard
to predict where this is going.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You heard her, right, Janet Yellen, the woman that was
in charge of the Treasury Department under Biden, not only
doesn't think that we can bring home our manufacturing base,
she doesn't even think it's a desirable objective worth the attempt.
Yet the Trump administration says we're already close to ten
new trade deals.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Everybody that the President has talked to in this space
has made commitments, big commitments, hundreds of billions of dollars
up to trillions of dollars to eye. I'm sure the
foundries that we need to make sure that America has
great semi conductors, the best semi conductor industry of the world,
and actually very very secure.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
National security as well.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
And so right now there are things that are coming
online that we negotiated last time. And then there's a
horse race to see who can.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Get here the fastest.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
And I think that the person the horse that wins
that race is going to have the biggest prize.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, I wish the markets would understand that that is huge. Okay,
that is huge that.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
The President has been able to negotiate corporate America to
fire up manufacturing plants here to make some of the
most essential things now, Kevin, the market is also waiting
to see who's going to do a deal first with
the United States, and President Trump said that the first
deal over.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Tariff's is close.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
How many countries are you.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Currently speaking with? Are we going to hear our friends
like India, Japan, South Korea among the first to make
a deal on tariffs.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Right, We've got everybody in the trade team and even
deputies of people in the trade team, talking to just
about everybody on earth. And I think that we've got
more than ten deals where there's very very good, amazing
offers made to the US that USTR Trade Representative jameson
Greer and Howard Lutnik and the rest of our trade
team and the President are stealing over whether those deals
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are good enough.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And so I think that the one question that I have.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Open in my mind is should we go one at
a time or should we announce a bundle all at once?
Because we have so much progress made so quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Stay tuned more after this.
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We will move.
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We will move.
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Po can't even look free.
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We're back with That's the bottom line. Here on news
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you're local here in Southeast Texas at four oh nine
eight four zero sixty nine hundred. Over the last week,
we've invited each mayoral candidate sit down with this for
an interview. The only candidate that failed to do so
was former Mayor Robin Mouton. After scheduling with this initially,
she called to cancel, citing a schedule conflict. We attempted
(13:53):
to reschedule the interview, but Miss Muton has avoided our
repeated attempts to make further contact with her. Therefore, or
Mismuton will not be appearing on our show. I find
it striking that for a candidate for mayor, they would
so flagrantly attempt to avoid a legitimate quest for a
conversation that would be made available to so many constituents,
but I will not comment further. We do have three
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candidates that are serious about getting their message out, and
the first is the man who holds the job already,
the mayor of Beaumont Roy West. We first talked about
the city's financial health.
Speaker 12 (14:29):
Typically, our revenues are projected less than our expenditures. There's
a lot of reasons for that, but I also want
to clarify too that we have not used any emergency funds.
We have reserve requirements that are set by the charter. Currently,
our current reserves require twenty percent for our general fund,
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and then we have also a solid waste fund and
we have a water utilities fund. Combine those three are
required to have forty four million dollars reserve. We currently
have sixty six million in reserves, which is that's right,
which is about twenty two million dollars. That is unrestricted reserves,
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so that money can be spent whenever, because it is
not it's not for anywhere now. It shouldn't be spent
for recurring expenses. But in a city our size, we
have lots of projects that need doing, and having more
money sitting on the sideline I find to be ridiculous,
(15:39):
and I'm fiscally conservative, but this is the taxpayer money.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Mayor also spoke at length about the importance of downtown
redevelopment and making the city a more desirable place to live.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
I think since I became mayor, one of the things
I deep into is how can we make our city
more attractive? And when I say more attract I mean
so that we want to be able to retain our youth,
be able to attract people to want to come here
to visit. But also want to live and I know
that as we've had this stagnant to declining population for
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a long time here in Boma, it's affected many things.
And currently we have many doctors that are retiring and
we're having trouble getting some specialists to be able to
come fill their positions.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Now. The mayor's top competitor in this race is Councilman
Randy Feltschew, who leads the race according to a recent
poll from the Southeast Texas Political Review. Feltschaw has come
under attack from another candidate in the race on the
grounds that he is the pastor of a large church
in our area. We had a interesting quote in one
of our interviews earlier this week from your competitor, ju Peretis,
(16:47):
who said anti quote referring to you the preacher who
craves earthly power. What is your response to remarks like that.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
People make those kind of comments because they don't understand
the American history. We understand that in the early days
of our founding fathers, with the Declaration of Independence, with
the Constitution, the Charters of Freedom, that ministers were heavily
involved in the founding and the establishment of this nation.
(17:18):
If you go back and look at it. Like with
the Revolutionary War, there was a group of ministers, and
there were so many of them involved in the war
that the British called them the black Robe Regiment because
ministers would put on their black robes on Sunday, preach
on Monday morning, take it off, pick up their musket.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And go into the battle.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
So they were heavily involved in our declaration of independence.
And then look at the number of ministers that was
a part of that Constitutional Convention and the Constitution, the
ministers that signed it. Also, if you go to the
state or excuse me, the capital right now in Washington, DC,
and you walk through the Capitol building, it's my understanding
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that twenty percent of the statues that are in the
Capitol Building or ministers. So people don't understand how ministers
through the years have been heavily involved in establishing this nation,
one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
And there was a time when we expected our ministers
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to transition from the pulpit to the podium because they
were the moral compass of our community.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
We expected it.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Okay, when men were took on personal responsibility and ministers
would get involved in politics to help steer this nation.
But over time, as there was a moral decline in America,
we had to write more and more laws to try
to get people to behave. And that's why you see
now in Congress gets made up of mostly attorneys.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Folk saw paints a darker physical picture for the city
than the mayor does.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
And then in twenty five we're budgeting three point five
million dollars in their read, which doesn't include the contract
with the firefighters that we had assigned yet, and and
also what we're not talking about. It doesn't include the
possibility of four million dollars of COVID money that we
haven't been reimbursed for yet.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Also in the race is Chris Jones, who is critical
of both Mayor West and his predecessor, former Mayor Mutan.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
I think we're playing ketchup when it comes to spending
right our expenditures. Have been told to the citizens for
a long time that we are in great financial standing,
and that that has never been the case. Past administrations
told our residents and members of council that we were
in great financial standing, and again, like I said, we
(19:46):
found out that wasn't the case. I do believe that
we have certain emergencies that needs to be taken care
of right especially when it when it calls for again,
like I said, it's sewer backing into residential neighborhoods, residential homes,
into their tubs, into their shallowers. When it comes to you,
(20:11):
it sewer leaving outside of its regulated containment. That's considered
for a lot of people in the city of Beaumont,
that's considered an emergency.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I personally went to thank all the candidates for being
gracious enough to sit down with me this past week.
We know it takes a lot of time out of
their campaigns, and we appreciate their opportunities to talk to us. Remember,
you can catch the full unedited versions of the interviews
for each of these candidates on our website, savemiretirement dot
com right below our special offers. Coming up next, Gene
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Valerani is back with a dirty little secret about one
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to. That's the
bottom line with yours truly, Jene Valoran. And now it's
time for today's dirty little secret. Now what happens when
the hunter becomes the hunted? New York States Democrat Attorney
General Flatsia James, who made it her desire to bring
(23:17):
down President Trump for allegedly committing a crime for overstating
his wealth on old loan applications, has herself now been
accused of mortgage fraud. According to published reports, Miss James,
(23:39):
sixty two years of age, is accused of listing a
home she owns in Virginia as her primary residence, despite
her being the New York State Attorney General. But there's
even more, ladies and gentlemen. She listed her father as
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her spouse to obtain more favorable mortgage loan arrangements, obviously
more than just a simple mistake. By claiming that her
father is her spouse. Plus she's a resident of New
York State, not Virginia. It seems now turnabout is fair play.
(24:24):
Remember remember this, it was Miss James who prosecuted Donald
Trump for allegedly overstating the value of his New York
apartment and his Mara Lago estate, hoping to have mister
Trump jailed and fined. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, meantime,
(24:50):
has sent a criminal referral to the United States Department
of Justice accusing Miss James of mortgage fraud. James is
accused of falsifying records to obtain more favorable loan terms.
How's that for some turnabout in the world of accusers
(25:15):
and accused. It appears that as Attorney General of New York,
she was too high and mighty to play by the rules.
It will be interesting as to the outcome of this.
As for mister Trump, as we just said, his administration
(25:35):
has referred Miss James to the US Justice Department for
the crime of mortgage fraud. And when the Democrats were
conjuring up charges against President Trump during the campaign, it
was based on false allegations. They did everything in their
(25:58):
power to not only defeat the president from winning back
the presidency. But they also wanted to put him in jail.
You remember all that, don't you. They wanted to put
him in jail and throw away the key. Trump, you
may recall, had the charges against him thrown out after
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winning back the presidency, but not before people like New
York Attorney General Letitia James and prosecutors like Manhattan's Alvin
Bragg subverted laws and violated the Statute of Limitations simply
to fraudulently prevent President Trump from winning the election last November,
(26:49):
which he did win. And now we find his accusers
being counted among the accused. How's that think about it?
The accusers are now the accused, Ladies and gentlemen. The
Democrat Party in the United States has lost this way
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and operates as an enemy of freedom and justice, it seems,
by continually making allegations against President Trump, they have no merit. This, then,
is what's at stake in the struggle for freedom that
we Americans find ourselves in as we move deeper and
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deeper into the twenty first century. Many believe it was
providence that spared mister Trump's life when an assassin's bullet
missed the headshot and just clipped his ear, and then
a second assassination attempt was thwarted on a golf course. Today,
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the fight is to stabilize the financial markets, reduced the debt,
lafe and res restore I should say responsibility to government operations.
For those seeking socialism or communism to replace liberty and justice,
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their fanatical attempts continue to meet stiff resistance from the
Trump administration and mister Trump's goal to make America great again.
Tell me tell me this, who can argue with that?
In the end, just like those old Saturday Matine Westerns,
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the good guys always won, and maybe the good guys
will always win, but to do so they have to
overcome evil. And I guess modern life in America is
just another big old shoot them up Western where good
(29:00):
always overcomes evil. And then of course that becomes the
bottom line. And when you think about it, ladies and gentlemen,
we're in a situation right now where we see the
struggle between good and evil occurring right before us. But
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I think it's interesting, if not something else, that the
Attorney General of New York, who had it all all
figured out that she was going to put Trump in
prison and throw the key away that she now finds
herself the accused in mortgage fraud. She's the New York
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State Attorney General, Ladies and gentlemen, she doesn't live in Virginia.
And there you go. And that's the bottom line. Let
me mention here this morning, ladies and gentlemen, that if
you're looking for investments that go up when the market
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goes up, but you don't lose anything when the market
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Make an appointment, come and visit with us, and we
can help simplify your life whenever you're looking forward to
making an investment of one kind or the other. This
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is what we do for a living when we're not
on the radio bringing the latest developments to you. So
don't forget four O nine eight four oh sixty nine
one hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
We're just trying to turn a nickel into a dime.
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
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Speaker 1 (33:00):
We're just trying to turn Ankeel into a die. That's
the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to that's the
bottom line. You're weekly broadcast on KLBI. That tells it
like it is. And I want to say this this morning.
Happy Easter everyone everywhere. We hope your Easter baskets are full,
and we hope this Easter weekend reflects the true meaning
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of the occasion, which of course is the celebration of
Jesus rising from the dead and paying the price for
sinful mankind on the Cross of Good Friday. It was
Jesus who brought about the biggest change in human history.
And the good news is he's going to come back
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and finish the work that he started. Keep that in
mind as we continue to go through the daily struggles
of our life. Here, no matter what investors thought were
good bets, this is the solution. I want you to
listen to me carefully. No matter what investors thought was
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a good bet buying stocks and some communist Chinese companies,
a new realization has once again shown its ugly face,
proving that when dealing with communist China, it's definitely buyer beware.
(34:38):
I think we all know that China is ruled by
the iron fist of communism, and for a while there
it appeared as if there could be a measure of
coexistence between capitalism and communism. But the enemies of free
(35:01):
just don't want it that way. The enemies of freedom
in China have now reminded their captive countrymen and the
rest of the world as far as that goes. But
under communism, the government has total control of the financial markets,
and mister Jiji Ping, or however that premiere there pronounces
(35:25):
his name, he's decided he no longer wants to play
the role of mister Niskott. So Beijing's crackdown on Chinese
firms is growing by the day, and the communist regime
there has decided to tighten its grip on businesses operating
(35:50):
in China. They want to clamp down on the free
enterprise system, ladies and gentlemen. Donald Trump, of course, is
the champ into the free enterprise and he's trying to
restore it here in the United States. And the first
thing Xijiping does is he has he's making parts for
(36:13):
Boeing Airlines. Guess what, he ain't gonna make it anymore.
Excuse my improper English, but Trump, as you know, wants
to restore the United States. Democrats still want to tax
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and spend, and that often rattles the financial markets, and
it can do damage to your individual investment accounts and
even set back your four oh one case. And this
is why when you come to see us, we often
incorporate principal protection into the planning process because retirement is
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really all about not running out of income during those
supposed golden years that we're supposed to look so forward to.
Right during the golden years, contributions to pensions and four
one case. In a down market, that's not bad because
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you're buying low. That's the whole idea, to buy low
and sell high, right, But then whenever the market is
once you retire, you're not buying stocks anymore. So the
consequence is you have to start thinking about safety and
that's what we offer. That's why we offer principal protection
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accounts here that Asset Growth Associates money that captures gains
during a rising market. And we also have fixed interest
options too, where you could put your money into a
fixed interest account and not worry that and they'll just
compounded interest and it'll grow safely and you don't have
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to worry about a big market downturn. And you can
move between fixed interest and also the market if you choose.
Why don't you give us a call four O nine
eight four oh sixty nine hundred. That'll put you in
touch with we hit Asset Growth Associates. We'll sit down
with you, we'll go over your accounts. We will help
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you design a plan that will be the right plan
for you. Remember four O nine eight four oh sixty
nine hundred. And that's the bottom line. I want you
to call the number. I want you to set a
time to come in and visit with us. And once again,
I want everybody listening to today's program to have a
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bliss and very very happy Easter. We'll be back, of
course next week, same time on k LVII five sixty am,
and don't forget you can listen to us online on
That's the bottom Line radio show to learn more about
the work we do at Asset Growth Associates. We invite
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interested parties to call us for a no obligation sit
down interview and we will help you design a plan
based on your investing risk tolerance. Not everybody wants the
same and has the same risk tolerance. Many have a
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different risk tolerance. In any of that, Ladies and gentlemen,
call us in Beaumont. The numbers four O nine eight
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Speaker 1 (40:00):
Trying to turn the neck one in die? That's the
bottom line. Where's just trying to turn the neck one in?
Speaker 13 (40:09):
Who die?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
People. Thank you for listening today to That's the bottom
Line on news talk Radio a M five sixty kl
v I plus to those of you that tuned in
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via podcast, through iHeartRadio or through our website at savem
retirement dot com. Remember you can listen to all our
broadcasts anytime, any day on demand online. Again, you can
contact any of us here at Asset Growth Associates locally
at four zero nine eight four zero sixty nine hundred
(40:59):
or toll free at eight sixty six. Save my Retirement.
Our physical address in Balmont is at thirteen ninety one
Calder Revenue, a block from the intersection of MLK and Calder.
Thanks for tuning in this week. We know your time
is important and that means giving you relevant information about
important issues. Thanks again to all the Beaumont mayoral candidates
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that participated in this event, and don't forget to go
to our website and check out the full interviews with
each candidate. That's at savemiretirement dot com. And in addition,
you'll find many of our feature services there. In case
you're new tuning into the show, we have a lot
to offer here at Asset Cort Associates. We've got a
ton of free services available to on our website at
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savemyretirement dot com. Plus, if you go to what is
My Risk Number dot com, you can take our free
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portfolio management to principal protection, from tax services to medicare.
We're here to help. If you're turning sixty five or
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looking to come off your group insurance when you retire.
We've got answers for your medicare questions. We know it's
no joke, and the federal government is fantastic at making
stuff as complicated as possible. And guess who's fault it
is As something gets screwed up, it ain't Nicle. Sam's
give us a holler. We'll get you sorted out. If
you're retired or at least thinking about it and you
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don't want you don't know what to do about that,
well we do. We can help you plan out a
path where you'll never have to worry about market lebbles
bursting again to all of those market ups and downs.
Scare you. Rest assured you're not alone. We've got investment
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We know how to handle your money consistently, safely, and always, always, always,
with your best interest in mind. Don't forget to tune
in next week for more news and a few more
Canada interviews. I'm Jeff Lewis for Gene valeraniat everyone here
at Asset or the associates you are greatly blessed and
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highly favored because, as always, that's the bottom line.
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That's the bottom line.
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