happiness

As I was searching the editorials in the New York Times, I came across one that discusses the simple idea of happiness. The happier someone is the less likely they will be sick or feel bad. Usually when someone is around their fifties they tend to be their unhappiest, probably because of midlife anxiety. Surprisingly, it is found that paraplegics are not unhappier than healthy people and people who live with teenagers are the unhappiest of all of the unhappy people (I WOULDN’T WANT TO BE MY PARENTS)!
A recent study found that Americans were no happier than they were at the end of World War II. Also, life satisfaction in China declined between 1994 and 2007, even though economically they were prospering rapidly. It is true though that the rich are happier, but that is usually just for a short period of time. Those rich happy people find someone even richer to be jealous of and satisfaction soon settles back to its prior level. We always set our expectations higher than where we are settled.
Ways we can increase satisfaction for a long period of time include free time or social interaction. Also, vacations or more time with family and friends are likely to produce more lasting changes in satisfaction.
Our government should spend money to help promote leisurely yet pleasing activities like these, rather than trying to increase the nation’s economic wealth, and everyone will be a lot happier!

HYPOCRITES

In this cartoon is shows Hillary Clinton voicing her opinion on imporoving gas milage in cars, which she believes should be alot better. Then, it shows her in her special car that someone surely drives her around in that uses alot of gas because it's big. The joke is that Hillary is a hypocrite when she says these things, like most candidates.

As much as I agree with Hillary's beliefs on improving gas milage, I do wish all the candidates would support what they were saying and promoting. It's not just Hil who has trouble doing that, all of them are liars at some point.

And concerning my views on gas milage, hopefully at one point we will find or develop another resources besides oil to make transportation run. Something more enviornmentally friendly and won't potentially run out.

Big Corporations

The cartoon says "The Board has decided to let you go for poor performance. Take your measly quarter billion severance package and hit the street!"

On the side wall it says "really big corporation".

Obviously we can tell that these are business men at a business meeting in some large city in America.

The meaning to this cartoon is that big corporations are taking over this country and all the money in it. Some of the most highly paid employees of this country are those involved with big corporations. I mean it is absurd, and the punch line of this joke, that a man who is getting fired gets paid more money in his severance package then most people make in their entire year’s salary.

It seems outrageous how some people can make so much money, such as these business men (which btw a lot have to climb over people, figuratively, to get to the top and do a lot of dirty work) while a lot of others have to suffer in poverty even though they are good people. Hopefully, one day, big businesses and corporations will not be as scandalous and filthy rich as they are and the economy will equalize in this country.