It's More Than Social Security

I've got to read Robert J. Samuelson more often:

Anyone who examines the outlook must conclude that, even allowing for uncertainties, both Social Security and Medicare benefits will have to be cut. We can either make future cuts now, with warnings to beneficiaries, or we can wait for budgetary pressures to force abrupt cuts later, with little warning. That's the problem, and to answer Bush, no one wants to address it.

I was reminded of him by lying in ponds' Neutral Index. I'm surprised to see William Safire & David Brooks so high up on that list.