Claim: Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney both claim President Barack Obama said that "Americans are lazy." He didn't. To the contrary, Obama has consistently and repeatedly praised American workers as the "most productive in the world," a bit of boosterism he has repeated dozens of times. His recent words — "we've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades" — actually referred to collective efforts to promote foreign investment in the U.S.,
Fact-check: Lazy Rhetoric - FactCheck.org
Verdict: republican presidential candidates rick perry and mitt romney both claim president barack obama said that "americans are lazy." he didn't. to the contrary, obama has consistently and repeatedly praised american workers as the "most productive in the world," a bit of boosterism he has repeated dozens of times. his recent words — "we've been a little bit lazy, i think, over the last couple of decades" — actually referred to collective efforts to promote foreign investment in the u.s.,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Robert Farley
Date published: 2011-11-17T20:48:21