I know this is the kind of language you get when you're running an election on the "President as National Big Daddy" principle, but I still don't like it. Unless Mr. Romney is promising to hire the young man personally, he cannot ensure his employment.
So in a sense, we do need impersonal language, about the systemic factors that encourage or discourage private-sector employment, and about the government's destroying the incentives to hire or to work.
If a candidate wanted to be both personal *and* realistic, he could mention that the student's choice of his major field of study has a significant effect on his employment possibilities and expected compensation. Studying engineering, kid?
I don’t know if true, but I heard Romney told the kid after the debate that he would personaly make an effort find that kid a job.
Where’s the politician that will tell the truth that it is up to YOU to solve this crisis? Being the best individual you can be and not dependence on the ‘collective’ creates a better society.
Age old solutions like, ‘find a need and fill it’, work everytime.