They say that travel broadens the mind, but for any hardy soul who journeyed through the Memorial Day edition of the Washington Post to approximate that experience, they'd have to move through the A-section back to front. That's because the op-ed section featured Robert Samuelson going through his near-annual romp through that old Beltway refrain: The swelling entitlements, they will kill us all!

In fact, Samuelson maintains, the only way to permit any residual sense of dignity for the aged and infirm who haven't had the common decency to die already is to just let both Social Security and Medicare drift into bankruptcy.