Romney Remark That 47% Feel Entitled Was Misstep, Ryan Says [View all]
Source: Bloomberg
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a misstep when he described 47 percent of Americans as feeling entitled to government aid, his vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, said today.
“We’ve had some missteps,” Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding that one of them was the comment Romney made at a private session with donors about the attitude of almost half of Americans.
Romney “acknowledges himself that was an inarticulate way of describing how we’re worried that, in a stagnant Obama economy, more people have become dependent on government because they have no economic opportunity,” said Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Romney’s comment, made in May, surfaced in a secretly recorded video first publicized Sept. 17 by Mother Jones magazine.
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