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RUSH: Sylvia in Baltimore. Hi, Sylvia, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, how are you?<\/line>RUSH: Fine, thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/line>RUSH: You bet.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019d like to share my story with you because I think it will illustrate what you have been telling the audience for quite a while. I came to America 13 years ago, went to school in Boston — which is the epitome of liberals — and two years ago, approximately, I became an American. Two years ago also, almost, I was laid off from my job.<\/line>RUSH: And what were you doing?<\/line>CALLER: And after trying to fill the same pattern and looking for a job in the same field I used to, I decided to form my own company and basically I\u2019m doing similar job but this time I\u2019m in control. I help U.S. companies to take their products or service abroad. I realize that we were complaining about jobs going outside the country —<\/line>RUSH: I was going to say, you\u2019re an outsourcing expert. (Laughing.) You are an immigrant who\u2019s come here to be a citizen and now you\u2019re taking jobs overseas! (Laughing.) And you\u2019re making more money than ever! (Applause.) I love this. I love this.<\/line>CALLER: But the difference, I\u2019m not taking the jobs outside. I\u2019m helping small and medium-size companies that they are producing either a product or they have a service —<\/line>RUSH: Ooooooh.<\/line>CALLER: — that they want to export.<\/line>RUSH: Ooooooh. Oh, okay. I see the difference.<\/line>CALLER: You understand? So I\u2019m doing two things. I am working for myself, and I\u2019m helping this country, which is my country now.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, because you\u2019re helping us export. You\u2019re helping us export products that Americans can\u2019t afford any longer because they\u2019re all out of work.<\/line>CALLER: Well, and the truth is there are some very specialized work that you\u2019re not going to find outside, and they need a little bit of help, and the market here is a huge market. (Rush laughing.) However, the growth has a little bit of limitations for some of the companies that I represent because they have competed with big players —<\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line>CALLER: — and we\u2019re taking those companies abroad, and there is room for those outside the country, too. They\u2019re happy; I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m making money but it\u2019s not only about money. I\u2019m in control —<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: — of myself.<\/line>RUSH: Yes. Yes. Boy, do I hear that. Now —<\/line>CALLER: And in the right tax structure, I don\u2019t need to get a higher pay. I could potentially get same amount of money or less, but more in my pocket because if I have the right structure, my employer doesn\u2019t have to pay any too much. In this case I don\u2019t have to pay myself too much because I can get all the money that I need and pay a certain amount in taxes.<\/line>RUSH: But you\u2019re happier, right? I mean, if I understand, you just have, because of this, you have the potential to earn far more money than you would have had you stayed an employee, right?<\/line>CALLER: Well, there\u2019s danger of course because the sky is the limit, but my point is not only how much money I\u2019m going to be able to make or making right now. The point is, know how many hours I had to work, how many more dollars I had to make to survive. The point is, #1, I\u2019m in control.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: Number 2, there is way of making this country more efficient —<\/line>RUSH: Yes. Do you realize…? Do you realize…? Sylvia, I have to interrupt you only here because of time. Do you realize — you went to school in Boston, so you\u2019ll understand this — John Kerry would probably classify you and your company as “a Benedict Arnold corporation.”<\/line>CALLER: And I\u2019m not sure if I understand that.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s right, you\u2019ve only been a citizen two years. Benedict Arnold was a famous traitor. He was a traitor to America, and John Kerry calls companies that locate offshore or out of the country — such as Heinz. <\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line>RUSH: Heinz has 57 of their 79 factories offshore. They are “a Benedict Arnold corporation” according to John Kerry, because they locate elsewhere to avoid high taxes and this sort of thing. <\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line>RUSH: And essentially here in a sort of a watered-down way you are in your own right a Benedict Arnold corporation. I mean, in John Kerry\u2019s eyes you\u2019re a traitor, and since you\u2019re a new citizen you need to know this. But what you\u2019re doing is fabulous, and I can hear your enthusiasm for it, and I\u2019m going to tell you. You know, people ask me because, of course, folks, I\u2019m considered one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on success and happiness — and a number of people ask me, young people, “What is the most important thing? What\u2019s the #1 ingredient to success?” and you know what they all expect? You know what they all expect? What do you think all these people who ask me expect. They all expect an answer. What do you think it is? One word: “education.” <\/line>They all think I\u2019m going to say, “Get your education,” and that\u2019s not the answer. The answer is passion. The answer is passion and desire. Because without passion and desire, you will not do what\u2019s necessary to succeed. If what you need to do requires a certain kind of education, your passion and desire will lead you to it. Your passion and desire to achieve and do whatever it is you want to do is what will drive you to do whatever it takes to get it done. That\u2019s education. If that\u2019s foreign travel, I don\u2019t care what it is, without passion — I mean, all things being equal, and if you\u2019ve got, you know, that IQ. <\/line>If you know the difference between two-and-two is four, not five and all that. If you have passion and desire, you\u2019ve got 80% of it licked. And then, after that, you have to be able to take the blows. So you\u2019ve got to remain dedicated to your desire, got to be dedicated to this passion, and understand that it\u2019s worth something, and that it can\u2019t be destroyed simply by a couple blows here and there, a couple of wrong turns or unfortunate moves. Passion is the driving force. Passion, desire, all of that, rolled into one. Without question, I can hear it in her voice. We\u2019ll be back. Look, Sylvia, I was just teasing about this Benedict Arnold stuff. It was just a little political comment there. I don\u2019t consider you a traitor. Don\u2019t tell anybody that and don\u2019t anybody tell her that\u2019s what I meant.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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