That’s not a declaration you hear often, but it’s also not the first time a study has reached that conclusion either.

It always fascinates me.  We get a daily glut of doom and gloom from the media.  Everything from people losing their homes to people loading up with too much debt to people being just plain unhealthy.  Many politicians too (of the ilk that would like to use the power of government to solve all those problems for you instead of empowering you to solve them for yourself) paint a bleak picture of struggling single mothers and down-on-their-luck working class families.  Yet time and again, studies show that reality is an America that is mostly content.  Satisfied.

Happy.

Which leads you to wonder, are the media and politicians full of pessimism because they actually believe it or because that pessimism is better for their agenda?  Be it selling newspapers or getting some new expansion of government power passed?

Personally, I choose the latter.