Romney modifies ‘stump speech’ to counter unemployment rate falling below 8 pc

Washington - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney calibrated his ‘stump speech’ to deal with the unemployment rate falling below 8 percent.
 
“We’ve seen the slowest recovery from a recession in history,” Romney said.

“As a matter of fact, I just read that if you look back 60 years, and you look at all the months we had with unemployment above 8 percent before President Obama, there were 39 months in all 60 years with unemployment above 8 percent,” he said.

“With this president, there’ve been 43 months under one president alone,” Politico quoted Romney, as saying.

According to the report, since he began running for the White House, Romney has counted up the number of “straight months with unemployment above 8 percent.”

But he dropped the line after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the rate fell to 7.8 percent in September and revised the number of jobs created in the two previous months.

“He does not understand what it takes to create a real recovery. I do,” Romney said.

“He was given the opportunity in the debate to describe what he’d do to create jobs, and I didn’t hear anything new. It was very clear he plans on four more years like the last four years. I don’t think we can afford four more years like the last four years. You know he wants another stimulus? How’d that first one work out?” Romney added.