Is This What They Call Freedom? Is This What You Call Pain?

A day after David Brooks offered his thoughts on the "odyssey" period that occurs between adolescence and adulthood, fellow NY Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman speaks to the same age-range, which he dubs "Generation Q".

Friedman states that Generation Q should ask three questions of every politician who speaks on their campuses:

1. What is your plan for mitigating climate change?
2. What is your plan for reforming social security?
3. What is your plan for dealing with the national budget deficit-so we all won't be working in China in 20 years?

Are these the questions that you would ask a politician who spoke at your campus? Is there anything that is incredibly pressing to our generation that Friedman is missing here?