there's a LOT of very unhappy RATS out there WITH money...
Posted on 12/08/2013 12:56:45 PM PST by Innovative
By gauging happiness, there'd be more to consider than cold hard cash when deciding matters that affect daily lives, according to a report this week from the National Academy of Sciences, which advises the government.
The panel of economists, psychologists and other experts assembled by the academy recommended that federal statistics and surveys, which normally deal with income, spending, health and housing, include a few extra questions on happiness.
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Ministry of Happiness.
there's a LOT of very unhappy RATS out there WITH money...
I don't think politicians and their union toads would agree.
Just like North Korea forcing people to visit the waterpark?
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And if they determine you’re not happy, you will be put on odumbo’s death panel list.
Orwellian
What if what makes me happy is a feral government about 5% the size of the one we have now, that minds their own business and obeys the BOR? Are they down with that?
Just get off my back and let me pursue it without so d@mned much snooping and interference.
Send some peckerhead around to look over my shoulder and "measure" my happiness, and I'd likely desire to enhance it by thrashing them.
Anybody who thinks the government knows how to make you happy more than you do, is an idiot.
So happy you asked, Dear Leader. I am scared to death and angry beyond my considerable vocabulary.
So I wonder who the new Happiness Czar will be? “ You vill be happy or we vill make you pay big fine er tax” :-)
The current definition is not really happiness, but license which is a vice.
The true definition of happiness comes originally from Aristotle's explanation as happiness being the end result of living a virtuous life.
Aristotle's true end of man is to be with "the Good," which was later defined by Aquinas as "God."
So, for these Feds to get together and decide what happiness is without any reference to its real definition is just stupid.
That’s not good, that’s stupid. Sometimes really smart people puzzle me.
The most happiness I’ve ever had has come through great unhappiness and struggling. I learn and grow that way.
We will never learn and it will retard us as a people if we seek our happiness and needs from government. It will make us slaves to the government for false happiness.
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Recently I keep being drawn back to passage in my bible:
Genesis 47 King James Version
13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
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I don’t attend church and such so maybe I’m foolish here but just maybe it will help somebody else as it has helped me.
It is an individual decision.
Winston. Smith.
Let’s copy the rip-roaring success of Venezuela and make a Ministry or Department of Happiness.
mandate we visit water parks and stuff whether we can afford it or not? North Korea is doing it.
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