I'm going to make this announcement because our budget director is on vacation he's out of town, ... I was thinking, too, when I was on this stage, why not make a change I'm not even going to call the budget director or call the staffers and see whether or not we can afford it. We're not going to just double the funding, I'm going to increase it tenfold.
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