Rochester, Michigan (CNN) – Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan focused on the sluggish economy at a rally that included a rock star introduction by Kid Rock, despite last week’s slight improvement of the nation’s jobless rate.
In Michigan Monday evening, Ryan pivoted from Friday’s government report, which showed unemployment had dipped to its lowest rate in years to 7.8%, to sluggish job growth.
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“(President Barack Obama) said that the economy would be growing at 4% this year. Well now it’s growing at 1.3%. The economy is growing slower this year than it grew last year and last year it was slower than the year before. We created – we had less job growth last month than we had the month before and the month before that,” Ryan said at a rally before nearly 6,000 people at Oakland University.
While the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rolled out a new response to the latest jobs report earlier in the day in Newport News, his running mate continued with the campaign’s primary line of attack over their democratic challenger’s handling of the economy.
“The president said if only we borrow about $831 billion and spend it on all his friends and cronies and special interests in Washington it would create all these jobs, that unemployment would never even get to 8%. Well it was above it for 43 months,” he said.
