If I was writing the headline for a story about the last presidential debate, it would have to be "John Kerry to youth of America: Drop Dead." More than anything I saw in the debate, I was shocked to hear that Kerry had absolutely nothing new to propose regarding social security. He is content to let the current system go on as planned, and "study" the problem of trust fund insolvency.

This should anger and outrage those of us in our early 20s, because essentially what Kerry wants us all to do is continue to pay into a system that gives us almost nothing in return and that may not even be there for us when we retire. President Bush is proposing a radical change in the social security system that will allow people to choose to invest part of social security taxes in the private sector. While I think that this privatization of social security should be broader than what the president is proposing, at least he is taking that first step toward systemic change, while Kerry just wants more of the same. Bush is proposing the first in what I hope will be a number of steps designed to make private citizens, and not the government, responsible for their own retirement. We need a president that trusts us to make our own decisions about our life and our money, and the man that fits that bill is Bush.