Happiness

It is a quite extraordinary idea for a government to waste spend money on finding out how happy we all are. What will the government do if it discovers we are all unhappy? Is it it going to prescribe prozac? I vacillate every moment between worry and a semi comatose state and imagine everyone has the same kind of experience. At which point is happiness to be measured? When one is feeling chipper or when one is feeling depressed? What will be done with the results and will they be used to try and improve our lot? Will that make us happier and if not why not? Or is this announcement one of those politician's ideas that dies as we all get on with our lives? Rather than the taxpayer having to stump up the cost of this exercise why doesn't the "Big Society bank to do so? The "Big Society" bank is the bank to be set up by Barclays, HSBC etc to finance good causes at lower rates of interest than ordinary banks charge. No doubt there will be many applicants for funding good causes - themselves.