Fun With Robert Samuelson

It's always fun to read Robert Samuelson's column on Monday morning to see what silliness he is pushing to justify cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Today he has his plan for balanced the budget over the next decade (the country's most important problem for people who never heard about unemployment).

As part of his argument for cutting benefits for the elderly Samuelson tells us that, "in 2008, the median net worth of married elderly couples was $385,000." (Actually, if we check his...