How could Greece's leaders have known their country would become a basketcase? By paying attention in school. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou attended foreign private schools at a time when his homeland barred private universities and guaranteed free educations. If Papandreou paid elsewhere for what socialism offered for free at home, why did he think what failed for him would work for others? Read my article @ FrontPageMag on why the lessons imparted by state-run education aren't the ones intended.

I work with a Greek lady who told us that you can be on the dole your whole life there and when one reaches the age of early retirement (57 I think), a person can claim to have worked all of their lives someplace and the government never checks. They just dole out the retirement.

She just got back from there last week and said that the country is in complete chaos.