Americans unhappiest they have been in 50 years.

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  1. 61falcon

    61falcon Well-Known Member

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    An AP article appearing right now in the Drudge Report shows the result of a research poll, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the Univ. of Chicago, which showed Americans are the unhappiest they have been in 50 years. They feel their children and grandchildren will grow up in an America that will not provide as well for them as did for them previously in their lives. They foresee a lower standard of living in their future.
     
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    It is no surprise what is happening it has been going on since the mid 1970's..
     
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    No ne wants to hear they are unhappy???
     
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    When people are hit with a pandemic, people have died, forced in 'quarantine' for months and lose jobs, and you would expect them to be happy about it?

    America should not be providing. The people who want better for the next generation should be providing for their own. That is clearly where the disconnect comes from.
     
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    Things won't go better. Much harder things will come.
    It's not very surprizing, USA have one of the most increasing suicide rate.
     
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    61falcon Well-Known Member

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    We need to start spreading the wealth.
     
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    Given the mass leftist terrorist threat that has been burning, looting, stealing, assaulting and even murdering recently, I can understand this at this point....moreover, watching leftist Mayors and Govs, fold to their terrorist demands certainly makes things less hopeful
     
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    And then again most right wingers would rather die than wear a mask ????
     
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    We need to stop blaming others for our failures and realize that happiness only comes from within, not without. Blaming others only ensures that you will continue to fail, regardless of how much "help" is sent your way.
     
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    Now why didn't you just say you wanted other people's money instead of trying to disguise it under Americans being unhappy.

    So you think you have a right to something you didn't earn? Well, they guy who has even less than you, wants what you have. Remember that what you complain you are being taxed to death.
     
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    What does that falsehood have to do with you wanting other people's money?
     
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    I suppose you think it's all Trump's fault? The fact of the matter is Trump has done more for America than any other president since Reagan. Until March this year America was enjoying 3% unemployment and an astronomical boost to the economy. Trump had nothing to do with a world wide pandemic or the death of a black man in Minneapolis. The left may have not created either of these crisis but were quick to propagandize them. People are unhappy because of the virus and the riots period. Those same people know what the cure for all of this is and will vote to re-elect President Trump.
     
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    And exactly which of Dirty Donalds policies gave us the great economy he inherited from his predecessor???? He inherited a 4.7% unemployment rate and in 3 years it fell 1.2% ??
     
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    It’s coincides with our country being downgraded among the world’s “democracies”. I believe we’ve fallen to 25th.
     
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    corps are sending jobs overseas and most of the products we buy are from overseas... it's going to get a lot of worse before it gets better

    I would also blame some of it on Nixon's new diet for Americans... heavily processed seed oils and high carbs - no way that should be the diet recommendations for America - that only benefited the mega food corps, not the health of the American people

    they tricked the people, calling these oils... vegetable oils and heart healthy....
     
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    Lead the way. Send me yours.
     
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    Happiness isn't based on how hard things are. Having something hard to overcome gives you a purpose. And purpose makes people happy. I think the reality that things are easier causes people to be unhappy.
     
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    Totally agree, could start by raising the min wage to a living wage

    then end the tax loopholes for the rich....
     
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    Why don't you want agency? Why is it whether or not someone else gives you money that dictates your happiness? Create your own wealth you can do that.

    I think the defeatist mentality you're presenting here where you just sit on your hands and wait for other people to do things for you is why people are unhappy. Their life has no purpose or meaning. To me that sounds like a living hell.
     
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    the problem is, the debt under Trump has grown so much, I think we are going to go bk like Russia did, I think we have reached the point of no return
     
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    There will never be an intern tax loopholes for the rich because that's who runs the country. That's who will always run any and all countries. Wealth is power.

    If your happiness depends on that I'm sorry, you will likely never find happiness.
     
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    exactly why the republicans trickle down economics has been a failure

    the right told us for years that the rich would trickle down if we gave them mega tax cuts ... we are still waiting

    the rich are getting richer and almost everyone else is getting poorer
     
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    The debt has grown exponentially since Ronald Reagan. And this is due to spending more than we are taking in. so you either steal more at gunpoint for the taxpayer or you spend less either way it's a government problem
     
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    Many of our very wealthiest avoid paying taxes by making heavy donations to charities which do not help the majority of Americas working por.
     
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    you don't keep giving the rich and the mega corps tax cuts when the debt is rising, that is for sure

    had we given those same tax cuts to the middle class, restricted foreign outsourcing and foreign imports.... the economy would be booming
     
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