The World's Top 10 Happiest Countries - Why isn't America one of Them?

[Vylo]

We have healthcare costs spiraling out of control.

Insane partisianship.

Very diverse population.

Very poor wealth distribution.

Our education is slipping (which feeds the above)

 

[Jeffwhosoever]

We have healthcare costs spiraling out of control.

Insane partisianship.

Very diverse population.

Very poor wealth distribution.

Our education is slipping (which feeds the above)

Record number on food stamps and in poverty. Yea, Obama!

 

[I Eat Pie]

Here's Obama's response to your concerns.

Obama:Uh..................uuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... I stand for all Americans ya!!

Sheeples: Yaaa Obama we love you yaaaaa. You're not doing anything but we still love you yaaaaa!!!!

 

[SolomonVII]

Canadians weren't all that happy either, when their credit rating was downgraded triple a to double a, like Americas is right now.

Good to see that things are back on track right now in Canada, triple A okay, after having taken that reality pill.

Trillion dollar deficits and no end in sight, the future for America is not too rosy. It is a sign of sanity that America is not on the happy list.

 

[serge546]

Lolsocialists. Maybe when we become a wrlfare country and everyone is happy with their sitting at home and getting $800 a month and nobody wants to work, we'll make it on that list. Ofcourse, until we run out of money. #Obama voters. Enjoy Socialism and "redistribution of wealth" which is te dumbest thing in the world. I'm kinda happy Obama won so people who voted for him will finally feel the sting of socialism.

I've never understood why people blame the so called "entitlement culture" on Obama. The U.S. has been an entitlement culture for many decades, just look at the huge problem of credit card debt and the debt of our country in general.

Americans LOVE to spend money they don't have. You are $10,000 dollars in debt? But a bigger and better T.V. is out! Have a 5 year old car that runs perfectly fine? But the 2013 model is out and I MUST have it.

America has had this problem brewing for years, it is just finally catching up with us.

 

[I Eat Pie]

I've never understood why people blame the so called "entitlement culture" on Obama. The U.S. has been an entitlement culture for many decades, just look at the huge problem of credit card debt and the debt of our country in general.

Americans LOVE to spend money they don't have. You are $10,000 dollars in debt? But a bigger and better T.V. is out! Have a 5 year old car that runs perfectly fine? But the 2013 model is out and I MUST have it.

America has had this problem brewing for years, it is just finally catching up with us.

I agree completely. But as a president, shouldn't he try to lead people out of that mentality? We're supposed to look up to him. But I think he is scared of speaking out against a lot of things like obesity too because he doesn't want to hurt people's feelings. But that's the problem. We're all turning into "oh its ok" type of people. We need to get people moving and not just feel sorry for them. Obama needs to start telling it like it is. People need to start accepting it too.

 

[USincognito]

I've never understood why people blame the so called "entitlement culture" on Obama. The U.S. has been an entitlement culture for many decades, just look at the huge problem of credit card debt and the debt of our country in general.

Americans LOVE to spend money they don't have. You are $10,000 dollars in debt? But a bigger and better T.V. is out! Have a 5 year old car that runs perfectly fine? But the 2013 model is out and I MUST have it.

America has had this problem brewing for years, it is just finally catching up with us.

I agree completely. But as a president, shouldn't he try to lead people out of that mentality? We're supposed to look up to him. But I think he is scared of speaking out against a lot of things like obesity too because he doesn't want to hurt people's feelings. But that's the problem. We're all turning into "oh its ok" type of people. We need to get people moving and not just feel sorry for them. Obama needs to start telling it like it is. People need to start accepting it too.

The First Lady has had a childhood obesity initiative since Feb. 2010.
Learn The Facts | Let's Move!

In response some maintain she's trying to impose socialism on our children.
Dar-Wei Chen: 'Let's move' toward 'socialism' - The Michigan Daily
Statist – Michelle Obama’s Term Two Agenda: ‘Impact Nature of Food in Grocery Stores’ | The Last Refuge

 

[I Eat Pie]

I was thinking more along the lines of "hey fatty, get on the treadmill" xD. My parents were tough on me on that stuff and it got through to me, but ok, that works too

 

[USincognito]

I was thinking more along the lines of "hey fatty, get on the treadmill" xD. My parents were tough on me on that stuff and it got through to me, but ok, that works too

Chris Christie 2016

(though he'd probably need to find another pet subject on which to speak to the public so curtly and succinctly).

 

[I Eat Pie]

Well isn't it better when parents are tough on their kids? Like "you go out there and do your best billy!" isn't as good as "you better get an A on your test billy"

 

[mzungu]

Almost (or all) NATO members. You'd be happy too if someone else payed your defense bill (Oh those Americans with their guns and money). This from a review of NATO:

"NATO is also no stranger to criticism. Detractors on both sides of the Atlantic have questioned its raison d'être as the Soviet specter fades. Many U.S. observers condemn what they see as the United States' disproportionate financial and military contributions to NATO. But proponents still see the alliance, for all its faults, as the preeminent institution for projecting Western interests, particularly at a time when the locus of global power is shifting east."

Almost all these 'happy' nations have trade surpluses with (against) the U.S. If they had to return those U.S. dollars in trade they might not be so happy.

Ah yes; I wonder what America will do if all the countries that buy American arms stop doing so? Also it is common knowledge that America gets her oil for free by buying the oil in US dollars that she prints whenever she wishes.

How much money does America owe to China? How much money does America earn from Arms sales?

You really do not know much about anything that goes on beyond your borders do you!

 

[I Eat Pie]

You guys wanna make your own weapons? ^

 

[mzungu]

You guys wanna make your own weapons? ^

Actually we do manufacture some of our weapons although this is not pertinent to my previous post. We spent over 4.5% of our GDP on weapons and they were mainly US weapons. We are a country of only 10 million yet we have armed forces that exceed in size of equipment countries with 4 times our population.

Sure we need our armed forces and sure we need the best weapons but to state that America only gives and asks for nothing monetary wise in return is basically wrong. Greece has spent more on American arms than America has on all the Greek products she has bought!

 

[Panzerkamfwagen]

Actually we do manufacture some of our weapons although this is not pertinent to my previous post. We spent over 4.5% of our GDP on weapons and they were mainly US weapons. We are a country of only 10 million yet we have armed forces that exceed in size of equipment countries with 4 times our population.

Sure we need our armed forces and sure we need the best weapons but to state that America only gives and asks for nothing monetary wise in return is basically wrong. Greece has spent more on American arms than America has on all the Greek products she has bought!

Not sure if I buy your numbers. In 2008, Greece was spending 2.8% of its GDP on Defense. NATO recommends 2%.

 

[mzungu]

Not sure if I buy your numbers. In 2008, Greece was spending 2.8% of its GDP on Defense. NATO recommends 2%.

The number varied from year to year depending on our military budget. http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/04/20/feature-01

 

[SolomonVII]

I've never understood why people blame the so called "entitlement culture" on Obama. The U.S. has been an entitlement culture for many decades, just look at the huge problem of credit card debt and the debt of our country in general.

Americans LOVE to spend money they don't have. You are $10,000 dollars in debt? But a bigger and better T.V. is out! Have a 5 year old car that runs perfectly fine? But the 2013 model is out and I MUST have it.

America has had this problem brewing for years, it is just finally catching up with us.

Conservatives can and are just as scathing on Bush II as well, but not so much on the Clinton-Gingrich administration.
Obama is not the entitlement culture, just the person in power who is an advocate of that culture right now, and hence the legitimate focus of our scathe.

The culture itself goes back at least eighty years in America.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Greece has spent more on American arms than America has on all the Greek products she has bought!

Up until last year yes, when we imported $370million more than you bought from us. Trade numbers don't reflect the $millions spent by American tourists in Greece.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Ah yes; I wonder what America will do if all the countries that buy American arms stop doing so? Also it is common knowledge that America gets her oil for free by buying the oil in US dollars that she prints whenever she wishes.

You're being rather myopic. Because you have had a negative trade balance with us for years you think every other nation does as well?

How much money does America owe to China?

The exact amount that they refuse to return to us in fair trade.

You really do not know much about anything that goes on beyond your borders do you!

Are you implying that Greeks know more about economics than Americans?

Actually it's more important for smaller nations to know as much about any reigning superpower as they can. Not so much the other way around. That's just a fact of life.