Re:My generation (Score 1)

I'm in that block, and I voted, so thank you very much for my part. I appreciate your characterization. I think the best part of the reason why young people do not vote is that no one really presents them with anything attractive to vote FOR. I'm 25 right now, still possibly draft-aged. Who should I have voted for? Both candidates deny wanting a draft, but the policies they were planning to enact might have made their desires moot. Why should I vote for that? How about social security? What are the chances that I won't be taxed into oblivion to support the system? Yes, I know Bush had some privatization proposals. How about a real, honest and complete evaluation of that mess, from either side of the aisle? Show me a candidate who doesn't treat my generation as meat for the grinder, or as a tax base to fund his generation's retirement, and maybe more will listen. I'm not saying that you have to propose giving me free money. I understand that these things are complicated, and that i'll have to pay for them, either in money or in blood. But at least don't lie to me about what they'll cost me, and show me that you appreciate the sacrifice you're asking me to make. Otherwise, it's YOUR country, not mine.