David Brooks Is Upset that President Obama Hasn't Inflicted More Pain on the Middle Class

I'm not kidding. If you get through the excess verbiage in his column, the main point is that President Obama hasn't moved to cut Social Security and Medicare in his first term. This is what Brooks means when he says:

"get our long-term entitlement burdens under control, get our political system working, shift government resources from the affluent elderly to struggling young families and future growth,"

and by his later call for "sacrifice." Of course Brooks doesn't really mean "affluent" el...