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Why aren’t we (Americans) happy?
post-gazette ^ | FEB 6, 2022 | DAVID M. SHRIBMAN

Posted on 02/06/2022 1:59:35 PM PST by entropy12

Two-thirds of Americans feel the country is going in the wrong direction. The financial markets are in upheaval, sending waves of uncertainty through the economy and almost certainly through your home. Inflation is raging. Consumer spending is falling. Three-quarters of Americans say that they are suffering from “COVID news fatigue,” impatience with the ceaseless worry about the virus. The two parties are fighting more than ever. Sensible people are raising the specter of “civil war.” Sober people are worrying about real war with Russia and maybe someday with China.

And yet GDP is rising by an annual rate of 6.7 percent, an astonishing figure during a pandemic. Unemployment remains below 4 percent, by traditional measures signaling “full employment.” The country is basically at peace. Omicron spread through the country like a cyclone but seems to be easing up. Sensible, sober people are employing the phrase “endemic” instead of “pandemic.”

With all that good news, the pollster John Zogby, citing what he called “some of the most dismal feelings and evaluations that we’ve ever seen,” produced a half-hour podcast the other day titled Why Aren’t We Happy?

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Freedom to choose is a wonderful American trait. You can choose your boat, I can choose a bigger ship. And we both be happy and not get on each others nerves.


21 posted on 02/06/2022 2:40:41 PM PST by entropy12
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To: entropy12
It's turned into an asylum, and the insane are running it...

...otherwise everything is fine.

22 posted on 02/06/2022 2:41:51 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: entropy12
Indeed.

Besides I have heard on those things they can not make a decent egg and anchovy sandwich.

:sniff:

Barbaric!

23 posted on 02/06/2022 2:44:28 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: SkyDancer
Not enough red wine?

Went to Costco today and got enough for the week
24 posted on 02/06/2022 2:49:42 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: eyeamok

Just for the week? Holding back for the rest of the month?


25 posted on 02/06/2022 3:00:47 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: entropy12

Because we are living in a soft coup.


26 posted on 02/06/2022 3:06:51 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: entropy12

It’s the double standard:

A guy wearing a buffalo hat is sentenced to 41 months in prison for trespassing (On top of being held for months without bail.).

Meanwhile, Mrs. Bill Clinton is free after giving, through negligence, the Russians thousands and thousands of Secret and Top-Secret documents.

Meanwhile, the professor who threw the Molotov Cocktail into a police SUV with 5 policemen inside got 31 hours of community service.

Meanwhile, Jane Fonda is still free after committing Treason 50 years ago. (Proves the tolerance of the Right though.)


27 posted on 02/06/2022 3:09:19 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: entropy12

Why not happy?
I would just get banned for saying it.


28 posted on 02/06/2022 3:09:19 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: SkyDancer

Tomorrow will get a couple more cases I think


29 posted on 02/06/2022 3:23:06 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: eyeamok

That should carry you into next week. Hope for the best, plan for the worst; unless you’re in Texas.


30 posted on 02/06/2022 3:25:15 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: entropy12
Why aren’t we (Americans) happy?

Because my $10 steak costs $30.

31 posted on 02/06/2022 3:31:51 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: entropy12

Why?

Decades of:

Prop. a. Ganda.


32 posted on 02/06/2022 3:54:13 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: SkyDancer

I still have the still and a surplus of bags of sugar for that worst case scenario


33 posted on 02/06/2022 4:22:03 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: entropy12

WTF should we be happy right now?


34 posted on 02/06/2022 4:25:40 PM PST by jocon307
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To: entropy12

“And yet GDP is rising by an annual rate of 6.7 percent,”

No, it isn’t. It was knocked flat on it’s back for two years and it beginning to reopen. It is being pumped full of borrowed cash. That is not a “rise”.
A heroin addict feels good briefly when they get that badly needed hit.


35 posted on 02/06/2022 4:32:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: DesertRhino

I’ll tell ya why. I work in psychiatry.

No faith. 3/4 of the people I see have no belief in a higher power. Therefore, they are left unto themselves to deal with the misery in their lives.

Families are absolutely and have been fractured for decades. People don’t know their grandparents. They usually have one or both parents who have run off and left. It’s like a wasteland in terms of the relationships many people have with their families of origin.

People have been raised without any sort of moral compass. No moral code. The worse of the human soul and human condition rises up to fill the vacuum.

That’s why.


36 posted on 02/06/2022 4:58:12 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: EEGator

“What difference does it make?”


37 posted on 02/06/2022 5:51:42 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: entropy12

If you have to ask that question you’ll never know the answer.


38 posted on 02/06/2022 6:32:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: libertylover

“Proves the tolerance of the right, though.”

Beware the fury of patient men.

L


39 posted on 02/06/2022 6:36:17 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DesertRhino

Good points.
Anyone can have good time and look prosperous using credit cards. It never ends well.


40 posted on 02/06/2022 7:22:10 PM PST by entropy12
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