Mitt and the Old Folks

I've already made fun of Mitt's economic program once, but this calls for additional mockery. From a CNN interview with A Coop (via Crooks and Liars):

Cooper: If you were president, what additional steps would you take to try and avoid a recession?

Romney:… and finally one more thing. I think people sixty five and older should not have payroll taxes taken out of their wages to allow folks to stay in the work force and to keep more of their income. They’ve paid for social security already. Let’s build up our work force and not go outside of the country to bring immigrants. Let’s let our own people keep more of their money and stay in the work force.

Now, one would imagine that this is someone's bright idea. And then either that someone had enough juice to force it on all the Romney advisers who must have thought this was a horrible idea, leading me to believe that it is Romney's own idea, or everybody in the Romney campaign is batshit. Because I can't see which demographic thinks replacing immigrant workers with senior citizens is a good idea. I can't see anyone thinking this is a good idea. In any way.