New Report Reveals U.S. Ranks Worse Than Most Developed Countries In Social Justice

According to Rush Limbaugh, the Occupy Wall Street movement is full of "smug, stupid idiots" who are being used. Perhaps. But according to a report released today by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the United States ranks under 26 other developed nations in social justice. Huffington Post reporter Dan Froomkin explains:

"It's one thing if you live in a market economy where everyone has the same shot at success. It's quite another if fortune favors the fortunate. And the new survey found that when it comes to 'equal opportunities for self-realization,' the U.S. ranks 27 out of 31 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states, well behind not just Northern European countries like Norway and Denmark, but even countries like Hungary, Poland, Italy and France. The only countries whose citizens fare even worse are Greece, Chile, Mexico and Turkey."

This comes only a day after the Congressional Budget Office confirmed that the rich keep getting richer.

Maybe I'm just a biased liberal, but it seems to me that those "smug, stupid idiots" from the Occupy Wall Street movement are making a pretty damn valid point about the state of affairs here in the good ol' USA.

You can read the report in its entirety HERE.