WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER ARGUMENT AGAINST IMMIGRATION LIMITS:

'I Don't mean to be flip with this,'' said Mitt Romney during a q-and-a with students at the University of Chicago last week. "But I don't see how a young American can vote for a Democrat.'' He cheerfully apologized to anyone who might find such a comment "offensive,'' but went on to explain why he was in earnest .

The Democratic Party "is focused on providing more and more benefits to my generation, mounting trillion-dollar annual deficits my generation will never pay for,'' Romney said. While Democrats are perpetrating "the greatest inter-generational transfer of wealth in the history of humankind,'' Republicans are "consumed with the idea of getting federal spending down and creating economic growth and opportunity so we can balance our budget and stop putting these debts on you.''

The government's record-breaking debts "are not frightening to people my age, because we'll be gone,'' Romney argued, but "they ought to be frightening to death to people your age!'' He regretted not doing a better job of getting that message across to younger voters. "You guys ought to be out,'' Romney insisted, "working like crazy for me and for people like me: conservatives, who want to keep the cost of government down and give you a brighter future.''

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