the great temptation to discuss 9-9-9, although i was just sharing the that our mutual friend, shawn hammett, has asked us to spend an hour with him in this kind of dialogue one evening. i suspect in that setting we might get around to comparing tax codes -- tax notes. frankly, i am delighted peter ferrara is here. he is part of an emerging intellectual revolution that in many ways began in chile, but also began in texas, with the galveston system. public employees in galveston, what they discovered was that you could put in about half as much money and get back twice as big an amount if you did it in the private sector, rather than turn it over to the government. i want to give you three large principals for fundamentally rethinking the system. this is one of the reasons we are happy to be here. any candidate who is not prepared to talk about giving younger americans the right to choose has no serious solution on social security. [applause] and you can say to everybody who is currently on that that you are fine, and it is not quite to be touched. do not let the aarp or anybody else lie to y