Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com)

From a report on The Guardian, shared by five anonymous readers: Happiness in the US is declining and is expected to continue on a downward path, with Donald Trump's policies forecast to deepen the country's social crisis. The US has slipped to 15th place in the World Happiness Report 2017, produced by the United Nations. The world's economic superpower is well behind top-ranked Norway, although it remains above Germany in 17th place, the UK in 19th, and France in 32nd. Norway knocked Denmark off the top spot as the world's happiest country, with Iceland and Switzerland rounding out the top four. The report's authors stress, however, that the top four are so close that changes are not statistically significant. The next tier of countries are regular leaders in international happiness surveys: Finland is in fifth place, followed by the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. The world's "unhappiest" countries are all in the Middle East and Africa: war-stricken Yemen and Syria feature in the bottom 10, with Tanzania, Burundi and Central African Republic making up the final three.

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Oh no that sucks!

[meta-monkey]

with Donald Trump's policies forecast to deepen the country's social crisis.

Gosh I'll be so sad when all the illegal Mexican rapists are deported!

TLDR: UN says more whites = happiness?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> iceland, norway, switzerland are happiest places

So...the UN is telling us that the way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then? Was the lead author a guy named Adolf, perhaps?

Re:Something stinks

[grasshoppa]

Oh and by the way I'd like to point out that Angela Merkel was called 'Leader of the Free World' by the press last week; that's about the worst black-eye the U.S. could possibly get so far as I'm concerned; the destruction of the credibility of the U.S. is now more or less complete.

Was 9/11 so long ago that you don't remember it well enough to compare it to some rag ( likely with their own bias ) saying someone else is the leader of the free world?

I'm going to go ahead and point out that that seems to be more your problem than anything worth worrying about.

Re:It's a good sign. Shows he's working for the US

[smooth wombat]

I'm sure he'll get around to all of that when he gets back from his taxpayer funded golf trips.

Set logic

[skids]

Civilized E Protesting & Uncivilized E Protesting !-> Civilized ^ Protesting != Civilized.

Anyway, it's going to be kinda hard staying happy when the elderly neighbors get taken away on stretchers for lack of preventative care. A tax break ain't gonna be much of a balm for that.