{"id":5084,"date":"2015-10-21T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:58:22","slug":"the_affluenza_epidemic_of_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/21\/the_affluenza_epidemic_of_2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Affluenza Epidemic of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The UK Guardian story: “Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich<\/a>: ‘It\u00c2\u2019s Really Isolating to Have Lots of Money\u2019.” UK Guardian. “It\u2019s a rainy Wednesday morning and Clay Cockrell is sitting in his office at Columbus Circle across the street from 1 Central Park West, which houses Trump International Hotel and Tower. In front of the tower is Central Park, where Cockrell holds his popular walk and talk therapy sessions.<\/p>\n

“Dressed in comfortable pants and a flannel shirt, Cockrell, a former Wall Street worker turned therapist, spends large parts of his days walking through Central Park or the Battery Park in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street, as a confidante and counsellor to some of the New York\u00c2\u2019s wealthiest. ‘I shifted toward it naturally,\u2019 he said of his becoming an expert in wealth therapy. ‘We are trained to have empathy, no judgment and so many of the uber wealthy — the 1% of the 1% — they feel that their problems are really not problems. But they are. A lot of therapists do not give enough weight to their issues.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

“And as they stroll through Manhattan, what issues are America\u00c2\u2019s 1% struggling with? There is guilt over being rich in the first place, he said. There is the feeling that they have to hide the fact that they are rich. And then there is the isolation — being in the 1%, it turns out, can be lonely. It seems F Scott Fitzgerald was right, the very rich ‘are different from you and me\u2019. Especially in 2015.”<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re rich, you don\u2019t have any friends. If you are rich, you don\u2019t have anybody that you have anything in common with. It\u2019s really, really hard to be rich, because everybody\u2019s gunning for you. Everybody wants what you have. Nobody appreciates how you got it. Nobody has any respect for the effort you put into to get it. All they want is what you\u2019ve got and then if you don\u2019t give it to \u2019em, you\u2019re the one mean and miserly. It\u2019s a lonely existence. <\/p>\n

“‘The Occupy Wall Street movement was a good one and had some important things to say about income inequality, but it singled out the 1% and painted them globally as something negative. It\u00c2\u2019s an -ism,\u2019 said Jamie Traeger-Muney, a wealth psychologist and founder of the Wealth Legacy Group. ‘I am not necessarily comparing it to what people of color have to go through, but … it really is making value judgment about a particular group of people as a whole.'”<\/p>\n

Wow. Did you ever, ever think that somebody would get close to comparing the uber-wealthy to minorities discriminated against because of their race? Right there in the UK Guardian, the rich are becoming more and more isolated. They\u2019re not allowed to talk about their money, it\u2019s not polite to talk about it. They can\u2019t brag about their achievements. They\u2019re not given credit for what they\u2019ve pulled off. There\u2019s nobody that can relate to them. All anybody wants from them is money. “It\u2019s much more socially acceptable to say: ‘I am broke. Things are hard.\u2019 You can\u00c2\u2019t say: ‘I have a ton of money,'” and have people leave you alone. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We foretold this problem, being wealthy, many, many moons ago here on the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

(playing of spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: We we got a story like this. The left was putting out stories about how guilt-ridden people were over having a lot of money, and that\u2019s what happens. I\u2019m convinced why a lot of wealthy people end up talking liberalism is because it keeps people off their backs, and some of them do have legitimate guilt. “Gee, I wish more people had as much money as I do. I would be more fun. I feel kind of odd.” And so they become liberal or talking liberal as a means of keeping critics off their back or assuaging their own guilt. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here Bob in Coral Springs, Florida. Bob, great to have you, glad you waited, and nice to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (muffled) Thank you, Rush, and I\u2019m proud to have you as a nearby neighbor. Trust me, I live in Broward County, and I don\u2019t have anybody like you near me. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My reason for calling — and I\u2019m not gonna apologize for going back a couple of seconds. But when you were talking about how Bernie Sanders and whatever attacking the rich? I just got a new customer. I got a new contract for building eight, 120-foot yachts. Each one of those yachts is well over a hundred thousand man-hours just to assemble it. So my position is, “I love the rich.” I\u2019m self-employed; I don\u2019t get jobs from poor people. I only get jobs when rich people spend money. You know, I\u2019m sure people trash on you about your jet, but they don\u2019t think about the man-hours that it takes to maintain that thing, the pilot, the people you employ. Liberals gotta start thinking about what the effect that they\u2019re talking about. If the government sends them money, they\u2019re just gonna give it away. They\u2019re not gonna produce anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obviously.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If you allow the rich people to just spend their money and have a good time, it\u2019s beautiful. I love rich people!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Democrat Party, in its current incarnation, is rooted in class envy and exploitation. And they are feeding… They\u2019re presiding over one of the worst economies in peacetime that we\u2019ve had. There is no recovery. We are not creating jobs. We\u2019re losing jobs. In fact, try this story. This is in the Stack unrelated to politics. Washington Free Beacon<\/a>. This is stunning. Listen. “There are 6,455,300 more students with bachelor\u00c2\u2019s degrees today than jobs available for them, including jobs that would be created in the next seven years,” and do you know where these numbers come from? <\/p>\n

The Regime. <\/p>\n

They come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics. Now, we\u2019ve got 94 million Americans not working. The Regime tells us the unemployment rate is 5.1%. This is an out-and-out lie, or misrepresentation. We know that people are being forced into part-time hours because of Obamacare. We know that Obamacare is collapsing. They don\u2019t even have half of the projected sign-ups that they thought they would have by now. Obamacare co-ops are closing and going out of business. Exchanges are in big trouble. <\/p>\n

There is no economic recovery. <\/p>\n

There is no economic activity. <\/p>\n

You know it when you see it. You feel it when it\u2019s happening. None of it is. You can\u2019t see it, you don\u2019t feel it, because there isn\u2019t any. The Millennials don\u2019t have career jobs to go to. It\u2019s tougher and tougher to find jobs, period. There\u2019s a sense all over the country that things are not right. People may not be able to put their finger on what or why, but things aren\u2019t right. Even the people who are working are scared they\u2019re gonna lose their jobs. Even people who have decent incomes are worried and frightened they\u2019re going to lose it. <\/p>\n

Even those that you would consider to be secure or those you would consider to be well off, they are worried that it could all go “Poof!” because there isn\u2019t any solid foundation underneath us. Every day you\u2019re treated to stories about companies laying people off here or there — and the immigration that\u2019s happening all over the world, the producing countries are being flooded with people who do not produce. And they\u2019re making demands, entitlement-type demands. And there\u2019s a cumulative effect on people with all of this news, and it adds up to things aren\u2019t right. This is one of the major things that both parties in Washington have, I think, no clue about. Routinely we hear from Obama and other Democrats about how great they are, how well they\u2019ve done with the economy and the recovery. <\/line><\/p>\n

And we know they\u2019re lying, but do they? What they don\u2019t understand is, what they don\u2019t know, what they don\u2019t get, because they\u2019re not living it. I mean, these worries and fears do not exist inside the Beltway. The employment rate there it is 3%. The median income, six figures inside the Beltway. The average income, six figures. The rest of the country is nowhere near that. Inside the Beltway they all have great pensions or they all have great retirement plans or whatever, and none of \u2019em are threatened, because they\u2019re all backed by the federal government or corporations that are intact and doing well within the Beltway and with work that comes commissioned by the government. And the thing they don\u2019t understand inside the Beltway is the fear. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s genuine worry. The just unstoppable tide of illegal immigration, for one thing it has, if nothing else, a subliminal effect on some. People do not see themselves getting raises. They see their taxes remaining the same or going up. There\u2019s a new fee here, a new fee there. People who have signed up for Obamacare are learning how much new money they have to spend on health care that they used to not have to spend. Not just on their premiums and not just on the deductible, but the actual cost of day-to-day treatment. There\u2019s a palpable fright out there among people, even those who are doing well that it could all go poof, or be taken away from them. <\/p>\n

Now, to be honest, there\u2019s some of that all the time. You wouldn\u2019t believe the number of people who acquire big money for the first times in their lives who think it\u2019s all gonna be taken away from them before they die. It\u2019s an interesting phenomenon, but it exists. But this is not that. I mean, this is just standard, ordinary, everyday people who haven\u2019t been fired, haven\u2019t been laid off, and they\u2019re not really threatened with that but they still worry it\u2019s gonna happen. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an unsettledness out there. And when you have 6,455,000 more students with college degrees than there are jobs available for them, how in the world does the same government report an unemployment rate of 5.1%? The number of Americans who hold bachelor\u2019s degrees now in their working years exceeds the number of jobs created by 2022. These are government projections for college degrees by six and a half million. <\/p>\n

In other words, the government says that there are six and a half million fewer jobs than there are college graduates by the time we get to 2022. And that does not include any factor regarding global warming and the effect that it has on the job market. I\u2019m just kidding. Now, before I go, he alluded to people sliming my jet. I\u2019m not aware of that. Have you seen any of that? He must be spending time on Twitter. If there\u2019s any of that going on, it\u2019d be in that sewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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