Paul Ryan told KRNV in Reno, Nev., Tuesday that Mitt Romney was “obviously inarticulate” in the hidden camera footage of a May Romney fundraiser in which Romney said 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government assistance and will therefore vote for President Obama.
“He was obviously inarticulate in making this point,” Ryan said. “And the point we’re trying to make here is, under the Obama economy government dependency is up and economic stagnation is up. And what we’re trying to achieve is getting people off of government dependency and back to a job that pays well and gets them on the path to prosperity.”
Ryan was asked if Romney regrets using the words he did.
“Oh, I think he would have said it differently, that’s for sure,” Ryan said. “But the point still stands: We have too many people becoming too dependent on government because of the poor economic policies of the Obama administration.”
