David Brooks Doesn't Have Access to the Medicare Trustees Report

David Brooks makes one of his usual balanced pitches for the Romney-Ryan ticket. As usual, just about everything of substance in the piece is wrong.

He begins by bemoaning the fact that: "Entitlement spending is crowding out spending on investments in our children and on infrastructure." (Btw, "entitlements" is pundit speak for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.)

Brooks tells us:

"In 1962, 14 cents of every federal dollar not going to interest payments were spent on entitlement program...