Despite Liberals, Fear-Mongering and Global Warming, Survey Shows the World is a Happier Place

Just imagine how much happier we'd be if we didn't have to live with the whining nanny-staters trying to run out lives. Yes, Democrats, I'm looking at you. Anyway, we here in the United States rank only 16th worldwide, and I'll blame the media for that. Without 24/7/365 doom and gloom news, people wouldn't be so miserable.

Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday.

Zimbabwe, torn by political and social strife, is the least happy, while the world's richest nation, the United States, ranks 16th.

Overall, the world is getting happier, according to the U.S. government-funded World Values Survey, done regularly by a global network of social scientists.

It found increased happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of 52 countries analyzed.

"I strongly suspect that there is a strong correlation between peace and happiness," said Ronald Inglehart, a political scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who directed the study.

Inglehart may think so, but I'd attribute it to the United States freeing hundreds of millions of people from the bonds of totaliatarianism and oppression.