When you watch the inevitable result of socialist governance, which is exactly the tragi-comedy Greece is giving us today, the temptation to laugh at leftists getting their comeuppance has to be tempered by the fact that real people are paying an awfully heavy price for this exercise in political and economic foolishness. Then again, you also have to remember that these policies never could have been taken this far if not for a willfully delusional populace that wanted the free goodies and was willing to back politicians who promised to keep it coming - the looming reckoning notwithstanding.