>> greg: arthur brooks, not albert brooks. >> dana: sorry. i follow him on twitter.hould. >> greg: that was an embarrassing mistake. >> dana: thank you for pointing it out. greg is being a you know what? >> greg: you called me cheap. >> dana: you are the exception. you're not cheerful. cheap and grumpy. >> greg:ly take grumpy, but i am not cheap. >> juan: what is going on over there? >> greg: they're happier because we don't walk msnbc. or read "new york times." >> dana: arthur brooks, i read it yesterday. eric, you're cheerful. >> eric: i went through 42 pages of the research piece. if you're married, you're happier than if you are not married. if you're a church goer, you are double as happy than if you are not. white and hispanics a little happier than blacks but republicans are substantially happier with democrats. that is through time. income level also. >> dana: i had a conversation with arthur brooks that told me income wise, the democrats are 9% higher in terms of overall income they bring it down. you can't bring it just to money. if you think about the fair

arthur brooks, the president of american enterprise institute, has documented this. it's part of an american tradition. the tradition of american philanthropy is still strong. remember that a century ago in that progressive era, a masters of great fortune like andrew carnegie and rockefeller gave enormous sums to charity and changed america life through building our system of libraries. rockefeller created our medical research institutions and the rigorous medical schools that we have today and the teaching hospitals. that was the creation of john d. rockefeller. a contribution to american life that was above that of many government policies and government programs. so the federal government does not have the tutelary power, does not have the monopoly in many areas. we've still got philanthropy. bill gates is trying to be a smart philanthropist. he's done some dumb things and taken metrics and trying to do better. so we do have a vital philanthropic thing. two important respects, i think we still remain an exceptional nation in the way that tocqueville was the first

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rather, it is what american enterprise institute president arthur brooks called earned success, and meritocratic fairness. people are happiness when they they have the opportunity to succeed and earn their rewards. sometimes we take risks and succeed. sometimes we nail. -- fail. sometimes we defer gratification by saving our money. maybe our neighbor doesn't. some of us are better at making money than others. some deliberately earn less to enjoy or pursue other things in life. decisions about families result in very different economic circumstances. when the government tries to equalize everyone or take all the trouble out of life, by taking care of our every need, it makes earned success and me meritocarattic harder to achieve. it eliminates the experiences that make us resourceful and resilient, the experiences that teach us to work harder or smarter for our rewards. those who believe in earned success and merittic owe carattic fairness believe the best way to promote these concepts is through the free enterprise system, a system in which opportunity is sacred and excellence is rewarded. we re

. >> arthur brooks who wrote about this in the "new york times" says, quote: the occupy wall street protesters but in truth they were probably happier than the moderates making fun of them from the offices above. >> i don't know. i i missed that. i did not see a lot of joy and a lot of euphoria. going back. >> i missed that, too. >> a lot of people in the whole movement of the hippies that were quite happy. of course they everywhere heavily medicated but they -6r7 very very happy. >> high. >> paul mccartney and the beatles show up we didn't realize this is what the movement was really about. also interestingly in this poll was about married and representing just persons. single. take a look at these numbers and get your take on this. 52% of married, religious, politically conservative people are happier compared with 14% of single secular liberal people without kids. >> the thought that someone absolutely loves you and is committed to you as a life partner is a very very affirming thing as a human being. so i think that marriage, not perfect and even there is no such thing as a marriage always