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A top Obama administration official has stated that the view that jobs from America are being outsourced to India is extremely embellished, he added that Indian and United States trade and economic relationship is not really depend against anyone, rather it is a two-way process.
The Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, Robert D. Hormats said in an interview as Bob Schieffer, anchor of the CBC News Face the Nation asked him a question regarding with his general reaction about India, and he answered that he thinks that is extremely embellished.
India is the location where American jobs are clearly outsourced, it is according to a lot of Americans, they all know about the telephones and all of it. People see and watch the TV show Outsourced, however, what they don’t commonly realize is the fact that a great arrangement of trade carries out on the export side. Over the last 12 months, India has raised its imports from the United States by 17 percent.
Hormats said that some of the Indian investment in the United States is starting to uplift, an enormous and major number of Indian firms are now investing in the state that generates an extensive number of jobs in the region. India’s development model is much more equal than the development models in many other regions.
He added that India has more stabilized model, and India is not a region whose growth model is according on export-led development, just the same with several countries besides to the east of India which is said to be very unique. From a overall point of view, the trade is not way of escape of balance within imports and exports. He said that it is not a tremendous exporter of manufactured goods to the United States that oppose with manufactured goods in the region.
Hormats discussed that when they look at what they export and they observe at the relative equity within exports and imports. It does not generate the same kinds of issues that people feature to some other regions or increase the similar types of problems that people attribute to other regions. There is a lot of alliances within Indian and American firms, India work very firmly with American firms, and they call economical innovation or innovation where they generate a new kind of services in a lower cost.
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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/market/article-outsource-of-american-jobs-to-india-exaggerated-us-1402
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=95655&n_tit=%27Notion+of+US+Jobs+Being+Outsourced+to+India+is+Exaggerated%27+
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/02/18/notionof-us-jobs-being-outsourced-to-india-isexaggerated-aid0126.html
http://www.bpowatchindia.com/bpo_news/usexports/february-21-2011/notion_of_us_jobs_outsourced_to_india_exaggerated.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/notion-of-us-jobs-being-outsourced-to-india-is-exaggerated/582131.html
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United States President Barack Obama has introduced to create a new minimum tax on foreign earnings to dismay large U.S. firms from sending jobs to regions like India, as he increases his outburst over outsourcing in the election year. For United States multinationals the preferred action would give a hard time for business to transfer jobs abroad and will give incentives to those who get back the operations in the United States.
President Obama’s proposal is part of a huge tax plan that focuses on his re-election strategy at the same time when many Americans are jobless. The United States business tax system has little effort to encourage job creation and investment in the United States and produce various opportunities that will boost profits and shifting production in the United States.
Another proposal of President Barack Obama is that the firms will no longer be able to claim tax deductions for transferring their operations overseas, meanwhile, the president is offering to provide a 20 percent income tax credit for the expenses of moving back the operations into the United States in order to help in bringing back the jobs. The recent corporate tax system is out of date , inefficient and uneven said by the President Obama.
He added that it gives tax breaks for transferring jobs and profits abroad and strike firms that choose to operate in the United States with one of the largest tax rates in the globe, it serves as an unnecessarily disorder and forces America’s small-scale businesses to pay out numerous hours and money organizing their taxes.
The tax system should not provide firms an incentive to place production overseas or use in accounting games to transfer profits in other regions that destroys the United States tax base. He added that starting the principle of a minimum tax on foreign revenue would support in determining the issues and afflicted a global origin to the lowermost in tax rates.
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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/politics/article-obama-proposes-tax-on-forex-earnings-to-discourage-outsourcing-298373
http://news.taaza.com/news/882242-obama-proposes-tax-on-forex-earnings-to-discourage-outsourcing.html
http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=obama%20proposes%20tax%20on%20forex%20earnings%20to%20discourage%20outsourcing&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&ved=0CE8QFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforexnewslive.net%2Fobama-proposes-tax-on-forex-earnings-to-discourage-outsourcing%2F&ei=By1YUPW8AajVigK3yoGQDQ&usg=AFQjCNGVIydkxhD1kgaoXek7cBiVNaFylw
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/obama-proposes-tax-on-forex-earnings-to-discourage-outsourcing/915767/
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A reversing trend is anticipated after many years of outsourcing of business processes from the United States, several jobs that were recently outsourced to China have begun to return to the United States. As a result of outsourcing overseas, most of the factories in the United States have been closed down but now those businesses were beginning to open up again and because of that it expected to give more opportunities for some unemployed American citizen.
In this case, it appears that the government policies to control outsourcing are effective and functioning as many jobs are coming back to its home. In terms of job creation, it will make an important impact and contribution to the industry, it was predicted by several consulting companies. Like in the Boston Consulting Group, the firm determine that the restoration of the manufacturing jobs coming from China going back to the United States will end up in a convincing outcome in the employment.
Insourcing or the reverse outsourcing is the term used to the job that is returning back to its home region. The homecoming of the service jobs and the manufacturing jobs that are related to manufacturing will generate more than 3 million job opportunities for unemployed citizen of the United States, it was according to the assessment given by the Boston Consulting Group. This good news will give hope for most Americans who have no job because they think that outsourcing will never come back again.
The increase in benefits and acquisitions for employees in China is one of the factors responsible for the return of many jobs back to the Unites States. The increase is approximately 15 to 20 percent each year that will take the expense advantage over the Chinese terrain. By 2015 the cost reduction which is the result of outsourcing to China will fall down to 39 percent from 55 percent.
The cost reduction of off-shoring to china will be minimal since the labor cost serves only a small part of the manufacturing expense. The cost reduction because of off-shoring to China will be reduced when they speculate other things that is related to outsourcing like the expense in duties, transportation and other factors are being considered. The view of MNC’s is also unstable with the growing income levels in China and other regions in Asia.
To support the Chinese market and other Asian industry, they want to manipulate and take advantage of China, they will manage the American ability to provide in the American industry. To be productive in terms of cost reduction all over the world, all the expenses are acquiring into account in some areas in the United States.
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http://www.bpmwatch.com/columns/three-million-more-jobs-in-us-with-reverse-outsourcing-20120202/
http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/31/10278345-reverse-outsourcing-could-create-up-to-3-million-new-jobs-in-us?lite
http://www.twylah.com/bpmwatch/tweets/165040720187625472
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Legislators announced a bipartisan bill recently in the House that could prevent American companies for off-shoring their call center works that makes some firms unsuitable for guaranteed loans and grants coming from the federal government, in which they want to stop the increase of jobs transferring overseas for their businesses. The protectionist legislation would also establish some intrusive mandates on call center processes, it was declared by Rep. David McKinley and Rep. Tim Bishop.
Customer service representatives working abroad for United States corporations would have to expose their locations upon petition but they also have to offer their customers the selection of being shifted to United States call centers. Rep. Bishop dais that outsourcing is one of the destruction in the economy and one of the factors why they are worried to cut down unemployment rate and lessen the figure of American citizen who has no job. he added that they cannot stop that quickly but they can eliminate it.
The undying trend unveiled most of the American-based customer service workers being outsourced in places like the Philippines and India, where it is cheaper that other regions, in previous years, several call center works have flowed back to the United States. According to a report, the largest call center industry today was the Philippines and beat India. The Communications Workers of America which composed of 700,000 employees and about 150.000 are customer service representatives have a full support with the call center bill.
Some large companies can save with their labor cost as Americans are losing proper-paying call center jobs said by CWA’s chief staff Ron Collins. As part of its collaboration with T-Mobile, AT&T has adored by Collins as it takes back almost 5,000 jobs related to customer service in the United States. He added that this bill is very significant for customers, workers and jobs too. The United States’ Consumer Protection Act and Call Center Workers would ask the companies that are planning to transfer call center work abroad to inform the Labor Department for 120-days before they will transfer.
This kind of bill is hesitant to gather strong support from anti-protectionist however the attachment of the call center rules intensify an interesting approach. Many Democrats and Republican constituents would possibly apprehend the option of handling more customer service representative based in the United States, given the extensive annoyance of customers who end up in a long conversation with agents abroad.
Bishop said that with Rep. McKinley as his main Republican co-sponsor, he was expecting that he can invite more of his colleagues to believe in the bill although it is hard to depend on it. A report will plan to reveal in the upcoming week to present that identity theft and consumer fraud are much greater in the call centers overseas than in the United States, the CWA said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/overseas-call-centers-outsourcing-bill_n_1135147.html
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The Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai stressed out the need to eliminate unfair actions in Washington that in the past five years, the Indian information technology industry in the United States has shared over $15 billion in taxes. The economic challenges in the United States would not direct to protectionism and that the issues of the Indian information technology industry will be transmitted quickly, as Mathai expressed hope on his first bilateral visit to the United States as the foreign secretary.
Together with the officials of the United States Department of Commerce, Mathai has believed to raise the issue at the meeting. Recently this year, President Barack Obama had his State of the Union address proclaimed for tax breaks for manufacturing firms that bring back jobs to the United States.
Later this year, as the United States set into a presidential election, the statement once again increased threat of protectionist economic policies. Indian IT industry assigns almost 100,000 individuals in the United States up from 20,000 six years ago, also it supports 200,000 other jobs such as, indirect ones, aside from improving the competitiveness of the U.S. companies.
Mathai added that most Indian firms are putting up development centers, over the last five years, Indian IT industry assigned $15 billion in taxes. This kind of success should not be set back by tight visa regulations that serves as a non-tariff barrier.
Indians paid more than $200 million in their visa fees, possibly $30 to 50 million has been taken from young entrepreneurs whose U.S. visas were denied it was based on the back of the envelope calculation. He added that it requires redundancy that the focus of these discriminatory acts are obviously those who have provided intellectually to the climate of reform in India and those who have been believer of tough U.S. and India partnerships.
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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-indian-it-firms-paid-15-bn-in-us-taxes-in-five-years-says-foreign-secy-mathai-297328
http://news.taaza.com/news/869599-indian-it-firms-paid-bn-in-us-taxes-in-five-years-says-foreign-secy-mathai.html
http://www.smsfi.com/news-detail/243992/indian-it-firms-paid-$15-bn-us-taxes-five-years-says-foreign-secy-mathai
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The suggested United States Call Center Bill would prevented the organize discriminatory trade activities and free trade said by the information technology body Nasscom. To make firms that transfer call centers abroad ruled out for guaranteed loans and grants from the federal government a bipartisan bill has been proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives, this action aimed at growing numbers of jobs towards other regions such as India.
Som Mittal, the Nasscom president said that the action was very disappointing that they see U.S. takeover protectionist measures that prevent setting discriminatory trade practices and free trade. To pay for domestic concerns, U.S. lawmakers assume to have created the practice of unevenly taxing firms operating overseas. He added that when the bill was approved, not only India will be affected, even Canada, Latin America, Ireland and the Philippines.
Mittal stated that the bill like this will boost the cost of service and will encounter a refusal from common citizens, the BPO industry works on a global sourcing model, creates efficiencies and the advantage of this was approved by the common citizens. A punishment of US$10,000 each day for U.S. call centers within 60 days at the U.S. Department of Labour for companies who will fail to report relocation to an offshore location, this was the bill proposed by Representatives David McKinley and Tun Bishop.
The bill also allows the caller to choose whether where U.S. based operator they want to and the call center operator who will answer the calls will have to determine their location. According to Mittal, the bill was incredible to be passed, the bill has only been proposed in the house, and it will be a long way to become legislation. However, particularly in the election year, the bill signified the mindset of some numbers of policymakers and could get the tone for the upcoming year.
As the bill would affect other regions as well, it would be effective with its counterparts in other countries said by Nasscom. At different views, the government will discuss the issue and they will express their concern and awareness. The BPO export is expected to increase by 14 percent to gain the US$14.1 billion in 2011 financial year. The proposed bill will not have an impact on them said by Aegis, Essar group firm. The spokesperson said that it will not affect on any operations they have, Aegis operates in over 12 countries and the clients are free to select whether what place the delivery center they want.
Approximately 5,000 people Aegis has within the 9 centers in the United States and the local U.S. citizens are about 90 percent. Over the next two years, Aegis was pledged to create 4,000 added jobs in the United States together with jobs4america forum. On the other hand, WNS has been taken up and producing delivery centers all over the world to mitigate the liability from legislation that could affect location of clients and even delivery centers in a region. To provide in the onshore outsourcing requirements of its clients, WNS has been analyzing the opening of a delivery center in the U.S..
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http://zeenews.india.com/business/technology/us-call-centre-bill-would-restrict-free-trade_35918.html
http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=us%20call%20centre%20bill%20would%20restrict%20free%20trade&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CCEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrd.mydigitalfc.com%2Fnews%2Fus-call-centre-bill-limit-free-trade-says-nasscom-586&ei=LiJYUPzQGc3oigL3yIEY&usg=AFQjCNG1h0I6bdtanNNM4Ey6AP1izny7Hg
http://article.wn.com/view/WNATA4C37D1655950C67A720E869998F082A/
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This time, Barack Obama is performing like a president with a greater courage rather than one taking the impact of a political burst in the face. A Republican main race that has damage holes in the electability argument of his most likely Republican rival Mitt Romney, increasing poll numbers and positive economic data have incorporated to set a new spring in Obama’s plan. And a challenging raid by the Navy SEALS to a Danish colleague and American aid worker from the Somali pirates in the previous week further improved the commander-in-chief resume on which he will run hard in the election on November.
Obama badly wants to win in the election despite the crisis spread out in three years. Obama publicly upsets Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer on the airport taxiway and reveal new derision for his political rivals. Political winds can change quickly and the roots of future electoral distress could be creeping even in elevating economic data and beyond the Atlantic as Europe tussle to keep a debt issue stimulating global affliction despite of the increasing hopes in the White House.
Obama will also face the lengthen and declining criticism of his economic record that his Republican rival will restrain in a bid to seize him of the second term all presidents desire. Obama is enjoying the chance to lay into Republicans who diverted the joy from much of his presidency. With the hope of his 2008 campaign an isolated memory, Obama has sometimes looked stressed by the bitter attrition of separated Washington. However in the previous week, he has communicated with over 4,000 strong crowd and appeared liberated.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the president is in a very good mood and those who have seen him can confirm that. Obama also enjoyed getting out into the region and the previous polling data has likely boost the president’s mood. Obama strike out Romney in a head to head match up by a handy six points and eliminating the recent Massachusetts governor’s main challenger, Newt Gingrich, it is based on the new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. The poll also proposed increasing numbers of Americans admiring his economic management and his job approval rating increased up to 48 percent.
Obama is aiming as he searches a route back to the White House that includes 5.6 percent for Iowa and 6.2 percent in Virginia, even though the unemployment rate is still high, it decreases to 8.5 percent and falling in some major states. In the fourth quarter last year, the U.S. economic growth till it hits the highest rate of 2.8 percent. Obama said in his national address that the state of the union is getting tougher and they have come too far to back out.
If Romney will be the nominee, he might come out damaged from a toxic election however conditions remain timely for a rude analysis of Obama’s record. The development figures of 2.8 percent were obviously lower than the 3.2 percent analysts had assumed and some experts inform economic expansion could sluggish this year, as Obama wishes to create more jobs. The unemployment rate complicates Obama’s route to the 270 electoral votes to win in the election.
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/obama-rides-favorable-political-winds-171264
http://mb.com.ph/node/349638/obama-ride
http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-857669.htm
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Bringing a battle line with Republicans ahead of what is anticipated to be a strong fight for re-election, United States President Barack Obama used his yearly State of the Union policy address to condemn America’s economic discrimination. Before a joint session of Congress, one of the America’s impressive political events, the speech put Obama back in the limelight after months of being outweighed by the fierce race between Republicans opposing to be his rival in the upcoming election on November.
The State of the Union is getting tougher, however, with the weak economy recovery warns his re-election prospects, he swear for a revamp, but one that will be useful for everyone and not only for the rich people, Obama said. In his time, the restoration that will be fair for all is such a defining concern. He added that they can either plan for a region where a decreasing number of individuals do really well as an increasing number of Americans almost get by or they can revive the economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone plays with the same set of rules and do their fair share.
The United States President Barack Obama assures more jobs and wants to take away the U.S. from outsourcing. On the other side, the Republicans condemned the speech of President Obama as pro-poverty and his tactics as disruptive. The Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who introduce the formal Republican response said that no characteristic of the Obama presidency has been troubled than its fixed efforts to divide them to smooth favor with several Americans by punishing others.
The words of both sides reflect the obviously different aspects of the economy and the role of government that will likely represent the election. Obama was blamed for what they see as inconsiderate spending, prevent hiring, restraint development, out of control government regulations and higher taxes that affects businesses. Obama forecast government as a force that can help people get a better living, he has denounced Republicans of protecting the interests of the wealthy at the costs of everyone.
Romney reveals his tax returns that is almost $22 million in year 2010 and paid about 14 percent tax rate. Obama affirmed making millionaires pay more in taxes, he proposed a minimum tax rate of at least 30 percent for those who earn $1 million or more per year. He also added that more relief for homeowners and lessen tax incentives that make it more appealing for firms to transfer jobs abroad. Obama stressed out on extending new ties and authority within Asia, as believing that old alliances in Europe and other places are tougher than before.
Obama also asked for the development of a new trade enforcement unit that will observe the unfair trade practices all over the world. The United States will give financing to settle its forms on even footing as the Chinese and other regions use unfair export financing to utilize their business. The economy is improving however the employment still rise with an 8.5 percent high rate.
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/obama-in-state-of-the-union-address-create-jobs-don-t-outsource-170172
http://news.taaza.com/news/860079-obama-in-state-of-the-union-address-create-jobs-dont-outsource.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/obama-state-of-the-union-speech_n_1229769.html
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Today, India Inc selected the WEF meet to deliver a tough message that Indian information technology companies are generating and not taking possession on jobs in upset western economies, as HCL Technologies reveal almost 10,000 jobs for locals in Europe and United States. Otherwise of being a threat, advanced economies like in India serves as a big help to Europe, this is based on the message from the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s advice to the EU or European Union.
He added that, by the year-end, fixing an FTA or the Free Trade Agreement would be in the Europe’s sympathy. To discuss the Euro crisis, they need to have a checklist, the FTA would be a great help, by the end of the year the respective trade agreements and EU trade contracts with regions like Singapore and India with others will be settled. His meeting in Brussles, the EU headquarters comes across the delay in trade-opening agreement with India.
In the next five years, HCL would generate 10,000 local jobs in Europe and the United States, announced by HCL Technologies’ vice chairman Vineet Nayar after President Barack Obama strikes out versus outsourcing. He said that corporations in today’s era of globalization require to generate jobs wherever they will go. The concern in outsourcing is getting unreal since elections are approaching, the United States has become hasty and dissatisfied when it comes to jobs.
As Indian companies go overseas, they really create jobs there, said by the chairman of Mahindra Satyam Vineet Nayyar as he refers in generating jobs in the western economies from where they get volume of business. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel also plans to invest in Europe to generate jobs. The American firms should be able to prevent paying its fair share of taxes by transferring jobs and profits abroad. Today, multinational company required to pay a basic minimum tax and every local companies who wish to stay and generate jobs should pay lower taxes, Obama addressed in his State of the Union as he hits outsourcing.
The focus is on creating jobs in the middle of economic issues and growing unemployment rate in the western countries. The job creation was the only issues both in developed industry and growing markets, said by the Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit. In the next 10 years, 400 million new jobs could be required to be created, he added. Almost $60 billion revenues from overseas markets gets by the Indian IT industry and it is based on outsourcing of business processes of the Western firms.
In the next 10 years, the immediate attention is required to generate 600 million new jobs, said by the International Labour Organization. The ILO said that with one in three workers all over the world or an approximated 1.1 billion people either living in poverty or unemployed, the jobs crisis remains unstoppable in spite of tough government efforts.
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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/market/article-we-are-creating-jobs-in-us-europe-india-inc-to-obama-296609
http://news.taaza.com/news/861415-we-are-creating-jobs-in-us-europe-india-inc-to-obama.html
http://www.ibsanews.com/we-are-creating-jobs-in-us-europe-india-inc-to-obama/
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The administration has announced and revealed some policies to honor firms that will bring back jobs from abroad and invest in the United States, said by the President Barack Obama. At the same time, the president has assured to reduce tax breaks for corporations that will transfer jobs overseas.
The policies were expected to be released in the next few weeks as he submits his Annual Budget recommendation to Congress. President Barack Obama stated as he addressed leaders of the corporate world at the event on the insourcing assembly at the White House that in the upcoming weeks, they are going to release new tax proposals that honor firms that choose to bring back jobs and invest in America, also they will reduce tax breaks for firms that will transfer work overseas.
He does not want the United States to be a nation that is particularly known for financial theory and carry out debt on account of purchasing stuff from other regions, said by President Obama. He added that he wants the United States to be known for creating and manufacturing products all over the globe and marked up as Made in America, he assures that they will make that happen.
Obama refers to his meeting with the CEOs of United States firms that have started bringing back jobs to the United States, he said that they have heard of outsourcing, these companies are insourcing. He added that these firms are choosing to invest in one region that has the most creative employees, the best universities, and the most productive and cutting-edge entrepreneurs in the world and it is the United States of America.
He also said that this kind of commitment of the region that they need as of this moment when they are in the midst of a make or break moment for the middle type and those aspiring firms to settle in the middle class in the United States. All over the region, he said that he meets individual who grew up with faith that in the United States hard work paid off and responsibility was honored and everybody can make it if they tried it, no matter where you came from, how you begun and what you looked like.
The change was a bit painful, said Obama. Over the last few decades, acknowledging the bargain has eroded for many Americans as the economy has innovated quickly. Several factories where individual envisions that they would retire packed up and worked overseas. They live in a global economy and as other regions develop and evolve middle classes of their own , global firms are going to continue those markets and operate employees and create investments across the globe.
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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-will-reward-companies-bringing-jobs-to-america-obama-295828
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