A Lesson Not Yet Learned

Here, from the WSJ is a clear lesson.

The lesson here is that spending on nearly all federal benefit programs grow (sic) relentlessly once they are established. This history won't stop Democrats bent on ramming their entitlement into law. But every Member who votes for it is guaranteeing larger deficits and higher taxes far into the future. Count on it.

But everyone already knows this simple truth, don't they? Of course they do. I guess it just doesn't matter.