As a Christian nation, those are people we will ALWAYS assist and we always have.
Romney was talking about the element which is able bodied and who have no intention of EVER being or becoming self sufficient. They now have or have had at some time, government assistance and want only to continue and enlarge on that arrangement.
This element permits themselves to be used each and every election merely to cast Conservatives as greedy and uncaring when in fact, Conservatives are really demanding greater accountability in the disbursement of government programs and also, asking for curtailment of the growing mass of recipients... who are neither disabled nor under served.
Of course. And Romney has embodied those principles in how he has lived his life. He has walked the walk. Which was a point made at the convention and can be made again in the debate and beyond.