Greek disability claims run amok — ‘blind’ taxi drivers?

If it were not so serious, it would be funny. Well, that's not true. It is funny in a serious kinda way.

Greece, as the world knows, is in dire financial straights. It stems from spending more than it makes (hello, America, it's Greece calling). And the spending comes largely in entitlement giveaways from the government to the people. These are entitlements that the people of Greece now take to the streets to protest being forced to cut spending under pressure from the Euro-zone.

Anyway, get this: The new poster child for runaway entitlements is the island of Zakynthos, which according to the recent WSJ report has an "implausibly high number of disability claims for blindness. About 1.8% of the island's population of 39,000 claimed the benefit last year." That's about nine times higher than the natural occurrence of blindness, the story tells us.

And anecdotally, which is always the most fun, it includes one "blind" active taxi cab driver and one "blind" bird hunter.

You can read the whole story here. It's titled the "Island of the Blind."

Priceless.