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Just wait and see where we'll end up in another four years...
1 posted on 01/20/2013 11:04:42 AM PST by Innovative
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The Obamedia knows better than to take a Happiness Poll tomorrow. When the clown and the poseur take their redundant oaths (totally unnecessary since they were legally sworn in today), half the country will be swearing in a totally different context.


2 posted on 01/20/2013 11:09:50 AM PST by txrefugee
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Switzerland at No. 9? They have one of the highest suicide rates per capita in Europe...


3 posted on 01/20/2013 11:10:57 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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Royalist propaganda.


5 posted on 01/20/2013 11:14:27 AM PST by Theoria
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very subjective criteria of course


6 posted on 01/20/2013 11:14:58 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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So we can now say (as based on the demographics of the top 10 happiest countries), being happy is racist.


7 posted on 01/20/2013 11:16:04 AM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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Libs = 1
Conservatives = 199


8 posted on 01/20/2013 11:16:57 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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Diversity leads to unhappiness. Is this the conclusion I should draw?


9 posted on 01/20/2013 11:18:35 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I guess it is not surprising because we are constantly told by Liberals about how unhappy we should be because the rich aren't paying their fair share. Oh yes, America treats women and minorities very badly too.

On the other hand, the same Liberals don't seem to be too concerned about the national debt and downplay its significance.

I don't know... I am so confused! But I know that I am unhappy! /sarc

10 posted on 01/20/2013 11:25:52 AM PST by dhs12345
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I notice that the “happiest” countries are extremely liberal, Socialist, and have very low moral values in general. If that’s what it takes to make their list, I’m glad we’re not in the top 10.


11 posted on 01/20/2013 11:31:29 AM PST by EinNYC
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These poll results make me very unhappy.


12 posted on 01/20/2013 11:34:11 AM PST by aquila48
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Gallup’s list is COMPLETELY different!

http://www.ibtimes.com/are-worlds-happiest-countries-latin-america-956178


13 posted on 01/20/2013 11:34:52 AM PST by MNDude
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I know that a lot of beer will be consumed in the next four years. So maybe that will make us happier.

At least it helps me forget that our country is going to hell in a hand basket. For a little while anyway.


14 posted on 01/20/2013 11:40:34 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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Happiness is mandatory. Unhappiness will result in termination.

Are YOU happy, Citizen?


16 posted on 01/20/2013 11:50:17 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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I’m shocked! There’s no country in Africa of the Middle East in the top ten!!


17 posted on 01/20/2013 11:50:32 AM PST by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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Well, comments about suicide rates and alcoholism aside, I have a problem with this article.

For one thing, the survey didn’t seem to actually ask people “are you happy?” I believe a poll that actually did that showed that put Nepal on top.

Also, the countries on this list aren’t “borderline socialist.” Having a large welfare state (in terms of services offered) isn’t the same thing as socialist—these countries have functioning mixed economies, with private industry, capital and labor markets, etc.

Also, all of these countries on the top have greatly scaled back their welfare states and liberalized their economies in the past thirty years. Ireland would not have been this high thirty years ago, when it was considerably more “socialist.”

For more information, google “Scandinavian welfare myth.”


22 posted on 01/20/2013 12:33:44 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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More proof that Conservatives outnumber lIbeRaLs. If they outnumbered us, the US would be off the hopeychangey charts.


23 posted on 01/20/2013 1:16:15 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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FRAUDULENT POLL!

North Korean is the Happiest country!

The Dear Leader has said so!

/s

“ve haf vays of makink you happy!”


24 posted on 01/20/2013 1:58:49 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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Surveys like this usually have the following type of scoring:
25 posted on 01/20/2013 2:24:26 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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Obvious racist poll. No African countries in the top 10.


29 posted on 01/20/2013 3:32:38 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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yeah, those Scandinavians are going to be deleriously happy when full-blown Sharia law kicks in!


32 posted on 01/20/2013 6:14:37 PM PST by utax
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