Daily Gut: America Ranks 114th on the ‘Happy Planet Index’
by Greg Gutfeld
So over the weekend, while I was sunning myself by the pool, surrounded by all the things that make me happy (my masseuse Roderigo, my aromatherapist Pablo and a hollowed-out gourd), a report was released ranking nations from least to most happy. According to the New Economics Foundation’s “Happy Planet Index,” Costa Rica came out on top – reporting the “highest life satisfaction” in the world.
Meanwhile America, the GREATEST country in the world – came in at 114th.
Guatemala, which is somewhere, came in second.
Okay. Let’s look first at Costa Rica – whose primary source of income is tourism. Who goes there? Americans. So without miserable jerks like us who need to snorkel nude and do coke off the tails of shaved mules, Costa Rica would be nowhere. Guatemala? According to the World Bank, three quarters of its population live in poverty. Yeah, that’s got to be fun.
So, forget the list. Let’s look at its creator – the New Economics Foundation. It’s a front for ecological cretins whose corrupt ideology drives them to link happiness to less consumption – a destructive, inhumane lie that most starving countries would take issue with if they weren’t busy fighting flies for food.
So what’s behind this dishonesty? Well, what do you think? Nic Marks, the founder of this joke of an organization, says less happy nations need to change their ways before their “high-consuming lifestyles plunge us into the chaos of irreversible climate change.”
So there you have it. If you don’t succumb to global warming hysteria, you’re a selfish prick, living in an unhappy country. Please refer this information to all those Guatemalans and everyone else on the “happy” list risking their lives to get here.
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But what if I'm totally cool with being an unhappy consumer? That's not very understanding of them to ask me to change.
Good post. Liberals have a tendency to point to these "Rankings" as some kind of indictment at the current way America runs its business. They need to consider the source, as you have. Frankly, most other countries fail the eyeball test. Sure it's nice to visit Spain to vacation and spend your wealth (I'm looking at you Gwyneth), but when it comes to living and working from an average background, you'd be hard pressed to find a better place than the US.
More crap from the "environmental" movement, which ought to be re-termed the watemelon movement–green on the outside, red on the inside.
The goal is not saving the planet, not for the elitist leaders like Al Gore–they regard capitalism as a blight on society, and a high standard of living as theft from those more truly deserving.
Gore, Soros, and the rest of the people behind the climate change scam are not hypocrtites–as self-styled philosopher-kings, living in tin huts and subsisting on rice and rainwater is for us peasants, not them.
I need to add this to my list – Global Warming causes Unhappiness. One more reason to fight global warming, be happy or global warming wins!
http://www.globalwarmingcauseseverything.com
http://www.iceagenow.com/
Saw this report on the news this morning…. so according to the ecological cretins..
Poor = Happy?
That's the only way I could figure it worked
…do coke off the tails of shaved mules
Okay, I officially want to tag along on one of Greg's vacations, just to see him try this one!
That's where the Liberals want us.
"Meanwhile America, the GREATEST country in the world – came in at 114th."
Our excuse is Hussein Obama
Some people out there simply cannot be happy unless the rest of the world is miserable.
I've found that in life, doing any kind of activitiy behind a mule is unwise and earns you a swift double donkey kick to the ribs.
Wow, I never thought I would be so happy wallowing in misery.
Everyone knows Global Warming causes Global Cooling
We need an updated survey; obviously no American is miserable in the Age of Obama.
They have to sell the idea that poor = happy, because the extreme environmental measures they want to take are going to make us poor. They know they can't sell environmentally-pious misery, so they have to try to convince us that we'll be happier.
You know, I'm perfectly happy being "a selfish prick" here in the States.
Right.
What the environmentalist knob-polishers don't seem to get is that the smaller your carbon footprint is, the bigger the animal footprint is on your face.
Why do people think we invent cars and planes and what-not? So we didn't have to rely on skittish aggravated animals so much. Makes sense to me.
If this list made any sense, and we really were 114th on a list like this, then why are so many people flocking to America and not Guatemala?
After everyones miserable thell just find something else to proselytize. Cowboy the new rebel.
It's called modern liberalism…..
Well, that's the liberal leftie creed – no life, no liberty and the pursuit of unhappiness. Whattaya want, Greg?
Must be the indoor plumbing….
So, why do liberals get mad when conservatives tell them that if they don't like America they should leave? They can always go to Costa Rica!
I've been poor long enough to know that it makes me unhappy.
Now, I have heard money can't buy happiness. But I'm willing to try it.
Maybe those countries are happier because they're more conservative than we are.
Huh… that's funny… I am much happier now with a better income and an education to support said income than I was when I was making $7,000+ a year or when I was living with my Parents as a military dependant where my dad's salary was just above the poverty level (thus not being able to qualify for things like foodstamps even though there were times we were hungry)
or the air conditioning
I'm with you on that. I'd like to be the judge of whether sitting in my giant hot tub eating lobster and washing it down with imported beer is better than working….
Maybe we got marked down because we spawned Algore, Pelosi, and Obama?
Then that ranking definitely makes sense.
It's a lack on sun spots.
Thanks to those three, I can definitely see why America is the 114th happiest country in the world.
I don't think I can even name 114 countries. How many are there anyway?
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When I lived in Nicaragua, many of the Nicas fled poverty to work in Costa Rica or Guatemala. I'm sure they became happier once they got there and found work.
And who wouldn't be happy with monkeys and parrots cruising by?
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and that's what they deserve to get for trying to polish a mule's knob!
well, if money can't buy happiness, I will just have to rent it.
Well I am not sure about that… I saw this film by Nobel Prize Winning Politician, Al Gore. And he explains that CO2 is causing Global Warming. I'm pretty sure it's true, he explained all this with nice charts and polar bears.
Well I am not sure about that… I saw this film by Nobel Prize Winning Politician, Al Gore. And he explains that CO2 is causing Global Warming. I'm pretty sure it's true, he explained all this with nice charts and polar bears. http://www.globalwarmingcauseseverything.com
in the old days, they called that serfdom.
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some people are just not happy unless they are complaining. That's the left to a tee.
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Selfish Pricks Unite!
57…
oh wait. that's states.
except for when they start flinging poo
That sums things up perfectly.
please dont send them there. My relatives down in Costa Rica would never forgive me.
Darkwolf Ladies and Gentlemen: Master of the Single Entendre!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
or *ahem* other things
We have Perez Hilton here for that….
Is the amount of happiness directly linked to the disparity between rich and poor? No wonder Dictator Obama wants us all to be socialists to increase the happy of everyone evenly.
They could go to Venezuela. I hear lefties love that Hugo fella.
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and for my next trick..
Plate spinning!
indeed, it does get rather messy.
I prefer the monkeys. At least they're cute and fuzzy. And I can train them to be Ninja Monkeys and save them for my future plans to take over the world.
YES! let's get the one way tickets in order so they can live in their paradise.
And they fry up real nice too….
yes I know.. I watched Bachelor Party and Porky's way too many times as a kid.
It doesn't take much to satisfy someone who lives in perpetual poverty, just as it doesn't take much to amuse an idiot.
that's ok, you beat me to the draw on thinking with your Dipstick Jimmy.
Dissatisfaction is one of the healthy signs of a free people. We always want what's better and what can accomplished, So we work to get it, and complain that we aren't as good as we could be. Slaves and those who have never known and can't envision anything better are not prone to complaining. The last thing true Americans are ever satisfied with is the status quo.
Funny post Greg, I'm even more happy than I was 20 seconds ago AND I live in America! Thank you.
Greg, they confuse our constant complaining with unhappiness…just can't get a decent pool boy these days.
that's what rubber bands are for.
much more nutritious than deep fried twinkies, I'll give you that.
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Now I understand the rumor I heard about the fence Costa Rica building around their island. It's to keep out all those Americans flooding their border. Shucks, I was hoping they were doing Jurrasic Park for real.
Costa Rica is a great place, exotic, beautiful, great whitewater rapids, a stbale government. They use US CURRENCY instead of the peso…
Wonder why? It can because of the delicate balancing act of superpower US and the regional hegemony. Not our ally, but not our adversary with no standing military they couldn't exist without us, at least in their #1 form.
So, once again a red herring wrapped in a canard and offerd as 'proof' of something which it is not…
I think they're coming for the Big Mac's?
As always, on the money…(literally, oops, ho-ho)
No Greg, we should play this up, slow down the SOB’s crashing our borders. It sucks up here in the USA, go to Venezuela it’s a peoples paradise.
And btw the same guy is on the government dole advising the liberal democrats.
They can have my Big Mac when I'm done with it. They'll have to wait a day though. I'll have my ninja monkeys fling it at them.
Of course many Americans are unhappy. Maybe their Gameboy or PSP just died or the get no bars on their shiny new iPhone. I've been to some very impoverished places, the hinterland of Brazil, the Dominican Republic and some former Soviet satellites. In Brazil and the D.R., kids play with whatever is available including using an empty milk carton as their ball and a stick as their bat for some pickup baseball. They don't need the latest toys spoiled American kids demand and take for granted. In the Baltics and Romania, they seem afraid to be happy, no doubt a legacy from their time under the heels of Stalinist oppression. Maybe they're happy but hide it very well. The US certainly has more reason to be happy but it's difficult when PresO and the media tell you all the time what energy gluttons, polluters and torturers you are. If you buy into the idea you're helping to destroy the planet, it's hard to put a happy face on that.
Well, I guess if all it took to make me happy was to have one or two decent meal every day, then sure Costa Rica sounds great. Or maybe if I'm so uneducated to know any better quality of life or condition for myself and my family, then maybe a third world economy would make me happy. Perhaps if everyone around me had the same miserable existence and lack of opportunity to better it or escape it, then I guess I would be less stressed. Or perhaps if my greatest concern from day to day was to provide food and shelter for my family, instead of trying to cure Aids or Cancer, or clean energy, or solve world hunger, or any of the other thousand or so things that the U.S. and other wealthy nations do for the world, than sure the impovershed nation model is the way to go.
This all sounds great no wonder Obama is taking us down this road.
WTF!?
Men In Black was, obviously, a documentary.
Bingo. Ayn Rand elaborated on that critical observation in her essay, "The Anti-Industrial Revolution." In brief, she wrote that if concern with human welfare was the collectivist goal, they would have embraced capitalism since it is the only economic system that produces abundance. Instead, though, they turned to the left in the name of dictatorial power and, "instead of their old promises that collectivism would create universal abundance and their denunciations of capitalism for creating poverty, they are now denouncing capitalism for creating abundance." (Her emphasis.)
The leftist argument is, of course, a tacit admission that capitalism produces and socialism does not.
Saving the environment is just an excuse for their power grab, after which they'll be the ones to decide. . . everything.
". . .the collectivists have found–in ecology–a new excuse for the creation of more controls, more corruption, more favor-peddling, more harassment of industry by more irresponsible pressure groups."
The New Economics Foundation obviously only polled Obama supporters for this poll.
There are actually 2 theories on the USA placing 114th.
1) Average Americans are bombarded with global warming hype 114 times a day.
2) In Costa Rica they have 114% less Al Gore.
You're welcome.
it's called the happy planet index. not the happy individual index. you are the idiot! why would this make you so angry and threatened? please try to look at things objectively.
Pack the plane with Dems, tie the Greenies to the wings. If they get hurt, no problem. Venezuela has this outstanding healthcare package, so I've heard.
An excellent comment.
And by the way, there are Protestant missions in Latin America now that are emphasizing the work ethic you are talking about. These congregations stress the notion that following good, Biblical values will not only improve your life now, but in the long run will improve your economic prosperity. These particular missions are truly achieving good results.
There a few Catholic leaders who are beginning to wake up and see that this is the key to helping the poor, not all of that "social justice" crap, which shifts responsibility to the state and leads to the sins of envy, anger, and resentment. A few.
As a Catholic myself, I pray it is just a beginning.
No one polled me on this. Had they called I would have told them to get *&^%, so I suppose I would have been counted as being an unhappy American.
With people like Marks living here, it's no wonder normal people are miserable.
Ever notice it is always spoiled rich kids that think socialism is cool? I love this poor = happy BS. Most people think poor means not having cable and a cel phone now a days. Having money or not having money does not determine my happyness. My ability to keep my own money and do with it as I please on the otherhand does make me happy. Maybe if they thought harder than the simple poor = happy they would realize that money isn't everything and in life it is opportunity = happyness.
I always thought that if your going to be poor you may as well live in the Caribian.
I really want to move to the Bay Islands in Honduras.
Americans living in South America really don't have a different carbon footprint than living in the US. I could be twice as happy.
ecological cretins is the exact correct wording for these idiots, Greg!
As a committed Christian, I have to concede that there is a tiny grain of truth (albeit most likely unintentional) in all this lefty blather about consumption. Modern theologians refer to it as the deadly materialism of our age. Its greatest danger is not the "chaos of irreversible climate change" (whatever that means), but the idea that happiness can be gained by acquiring more material stuff rather than by acquiring things of the spirit, e.g. freedom, love, knowledge, etc.
The Christian culture that made Britain and America economic powerhouses didn't accomplish greatness by squandering wealth on lavish living and useless trinkets, but through an incredible work ethic and spartan lifestyle. People generated massive amounts of wealth by working very hard, building capital, and saving and reinvesting it back into industry and business. We in the modern West have confused that old spirit of capitalism with consumerism. It's unfortunate (and ironic) that it's probably going to take economic oppression to bring it back. If and when it returns, this spirit ought to be spread to places like Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Good lord, this sounds almost as terrible as that Visions of Humanity Peace Indez which puts Israel in the last four spots as one of the less peaceful countries in the world.
Wow, excellent to hear that.
Money can't buy happiness. But it can rent it.
EDIT: DAMNIT! Darkwolf beat me to it! Too quick, wolfie.
North Korea should have come in first; how many North Koreans would admit they weren't happy?
This has been an interest of mine for years – what nation's people are happier? There is an indicator – and apologies if someone already references this, I just skimmed the comments – that I find more important: which nation would you move to? I may be a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing Conservative here in the States, but I find the Index of Economic Freedom (published annually by the Heritage Foundation and the WSJ) is quite handy. Here, using 10 categories (monetary stability, labor freedom, taxation, State spending et al), every nation on Earth is ranked. If you look at the link below, you'll see that the U.S. currently ranks sixth – we managed to fall only one spot, but that was *before* TARP and all the economic atrocities that have come since.
The list is useful in that it gives people an idea of where they might fit in. The top of the list includes the freest economies in the world, while the bottom is a perpetual stalemate, with North Korea, year after year, finishing last (we have Cuba, Burma, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, etc right there with them – funny how our current POTUS is such a fan of those). The question is: where would you rather live? Ask it to your friends, regardless of politics – would you rather live in Hong Kong or Cuba? Ireland or Burma? The easy answer – I don't see any American liberals chartering vessels to Cuba, but I see plenty of Cubans taking a 60 miles hell journey to get here.
Seems like there's a correlation.
http://www.heritage.org/Index/
I'd trust Al Gore's opinion, I'm pretty sure he's a expert on the subject too. Just ask him? Didn't he also invent the internet?
I actually know someone who knows Al. He was a pot smoking war protesting hippy teaching at Michigan State in the 60's. Not Al the other person that is. I’m sure Al is a square as can be. Yea right Al Gore is stoned out of his mind.
Costa Rica is a great place, exotic, beautiful, great whitewater rapids, a stable government. They use US CURRENCY instead of the peso…
Wonder why? It can because of the delicate balancing act of superpower US and the regional hegemony. Not our ally, but not our adversary with no standing military they couldn't exist without us, at least in their #1 form.
So, once again a red herring wrapped in a canard and offered as 'proof' of something which it is not…
I've been to over 30 countries. I have lived in three countries. Which is my favorite? The USA, warts and all.
I'm afraid I have to agree with the Index. The easiest path to happiness is to give up your dreams, and settle for whatever life gives you.
On the other hand, happiness is over-rated.
That was my question. What if being "a selfish prick, living in an unhappy country" makes me happy?
I have worked with many foreign born doctors who claim to hate the US but apply for citizenship (or visa changes) ASAP so they don't have to return to their respective paradises.
I'm a little sore at the perpetrators of this bogus list. Costa Rica is a potential back-up country sane Americans can move to if Obama and his socialist/marxist pals mess up our country beyond repair. As such I'd prefer that it be left off every list.
Now Guatemala on the other hand… I've done medical missionary work there. I'd recommend we export as many libtards there as possible so that they can be happy.
I have to add that I am proud of any American that might have actually been polled for this list. Please remember: if any liberal asks how it is where you live, always respond, "It's terrible here. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT." Otherwise they might move near you.
And no free peanuts till they get there.
It seems, according to a number of surveys that I've read, that "selfish pricks" (i.e., conservatives, particularly religious conservatives) tend to donate a lot more of THEIR OWN MONEY to charitable causes, particularly charities that directly assist poor people in other countries. I was dismayed when a retired pastor promoted the cause of this particular organization "committed to ending Third World poverty". What this organization advocated was for church members to write letters to their senators and congresspersons to push for more foreign aid and for "debt forgiveness" – in other words, to pony up more money to America-hating kleptocrats.
…and much more nutritious than Perez Hilton (too many saturated fats and peservatives). Plus trained monkeys won't insult your hairstyle and choice of clothing.
Mucho thumbs up! Dark and delightful wisdom have you…
…sorta like California. I've heard many of the illegals are leaving that state for other states or to return to Mexico now that the state's economy has tanked. Maybe THAT's B-HO's plan: muck up the economy so illegals (and other foriegners) will no longer wish to come here – immigration issue solved! BRILLIANT!
indeed. reminds me of an old Elvis movie (I forget the title) where he was in the desert talking with an Arab guide when the subject of gov't aid came up. Ever on the scent for a payoff, said guide enquired how does one obtain said gov't aid to which Elvis replied: "Simple, just bad mouth the USA as often and as loudly as you can", (parahprasing of course as I saw this flick on tv a long time ago).
indeed. reminds me of an old Elvis movie (I forget the title) where he was in the desert talking with an Arab guide when the subject of gov't aid came up. Ever on the scent for a payoff, said guide enquired how does one obtain said gov't aid to which Elvis replied: "Simple, just bad mouth the USA as often and as loudly as you can", (paraphrasing of course as I saw this flick on tv a long time ago).
Actually, Perez Hilton is toxic to most human systems. Common symptoms include explosive and unending diahrea (both of the digestive track and of the mouth), repressed anger at the world in general and a fear of small dogs. If one sights Perez, at all costs maintain a distance of at least 30 feet and stay away from public showers.
WOW, Greg 114th? I would have though that we would not even be in the top 1K….. But thanks to Obama, we will be in the top 5…… He is going around apologizing for everything that we have done over the past 150 years or so
The biggest danger in a culture of consumption is that it rests upon the sins of pride and envy.
Not only did the great industrialists (robber-barons, they call them) plough money back into their businesses, they made enormous contributions to charities. Andrew Carnegie did more for the poor than every socialist who ever lived.
Especially since they're the ones who always threaten to leave if they don't get their way!
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