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Romney son speaks to students at campus bar

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Matt Romney, son of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, stressed the importance of economics to voters at the Kollege Klub Wednesday.[/media-credit]

Matt Romney, son of presidential candidate and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., gathered with a crowd of University of Wisconsin students at The Kollege Klub Wednesday evening.

At the event, Romney outlined why his father’s plans for the economy would be beneficial and said Wisconsin is a key state in this election.

Romney made it clear to supporters the Romney-Ryan ticket is “not about celebrity status” like President Barack Obama’s campaign but instead is focused on the economy, which he called “the driving issue” with which voters are concerned.

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“During the Obama administration, there was 43 months of unemployment over 8 percent, and we are now $16 trillion more in debt,” Romney said. “This debt is not wrong; it is immoral.”

According to Romney, his father is “equipped with dealing with serious things” such as the economic recovery, noting his record of working with Democrats as governor of Massachusetts to balance the budget, something he said Obama could not do.

“[There was] a $3 billion budget deficit, and [my father] turned that around and ended up getting a budget surplus. How much do we see of that with the current administration”? he said.

His father, Romney said, can help the nation grow by allowing small business to grow, and he would not “take the economic pie and distribute it,” which he said Obama is doing.

Romney said he believes the nation has seen two different routes the country would take under each candidate, and his father is the one that appeals to the majority of Americans.

Chris Hoffman, University of Wisconsin College Democrats chair, said he disagreed with Romney, contrasting Obama’s progress on the economy with Romney’s “vague” economic plan. Hoffman said there have been 43 straight months of job creation.

“The president has been working all these years to fix the mess that [former President] George W. Bush created during his two terms in office,” Hoffman said.

He added Romney’s tax plan would harm the middle class and would benefit those at the top, despite Romney’s claims of cutting taxes for everyone.

Katie Pointer, a UW student who sits on the UW System Board of Regents, attended Romney’s speech and said Romney would ensure the economy recovers. She said she was not pleased with the country’s lack of progress under Obama.

“Barack Obama and Mitt Romney laid out two different paths for this country, and I’m voting for the one Mitt laid out,” she said. “The president has shown what he can do in the last four years, and I don’t think it’s been very much.”

As a student, Pointer said she believes the most important issues in this election are the economy and students being able to find jobs once they leave college.

Romney’s plan, she said, is focused toward growing the middle class and small businesses.

“He is going to be looking at the private sector, growing small business,” Pointer said, “That is what is going to be an emphasis in his presidency, which I don’t think has been an emphasis for the current president.”

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