In fact, while the gentleman is bringing a chart down, I think he has made an excellent point and sometimes we forget because we get so bogged down in $1,624 billion and 2.3 percent and $100 billion and $200 million and all of these numbers. We sometimes talk about these kinds of things as if it were some kind of an accounting exercise when really this in the end is about real people and how it is going to affect their lives.
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