let s start with the bad news first, all right? so by the year 2020, the c.b.o. estimates that social security will be running a deficit to the tune of $42 billion. obviously, your generation is going to inherit the deficit, the debt, etc. and you say that s standing in your way of achieving the american dream. how? well, absolutely. you know, in the column i wrote for the monitor what i said is pretty much you can take $100 bills and create two berlin walls and these walls symbolize the barrier standing between my generation and the american dream and that s kind of the problem. with the future taxes we re going to have to pay for entitlements for the debt that we re now racking up almost $14 trillion by the end of this year. it s something we re going to have to deal with. we ll have a bigger say on this. yes, we can vote now. if you can serve your country and go die for your country and foreign lands, you ought to be able to run for congress. you ought to be able to have a v