Those who regard government "entitlement" programs as sacrosanct, and regard those who want to cut them back as calloused or cruel, picture a world very different from the world of reality.
Some of society's most intractable problems come not from its failures but from its successes. Often you can't get a good thing without paying a bad price.
By: Pat Buchanan
| Posted: August 19, 2011 3:55 AM
As he and his daughters bicycle around the summer playground of the Northeastern elite, Martha's Vineyard, President Obama is steadily bleeding away both the support of the nation and that of his most loyal constituency.
