>>>>That comes out to 3% over the 6 year period you talked about. That is approximately the average inflation rate for that period. In essence the budget never grew in real dollar terms over those 6 years. Some big spender!Nice try. If Rudy didn't support big government, he would have made an EFFORT to slash the budget. That didn't happen. He also made no EFFORT to end the city income tax. Add that $4.5 billion deficit to the overall bill handed the NYCity taxpayers and the overall budget increase went up some 33% in six years. And you completely forgot about the $42 billion debt level Rudy left behind. Imagine Rudy with his hands on the federal budget of almost $3 trillion. LOL
Rudy did reduce crime in NYCity, in an era when national crime rates were falling. From what I've read crime began dropping under the Dikens admin. Rudy did reduce welfare rolls, but he didn't abolish welfare. NYCity remains a welfare haven. By abolishing the 12.5% surtax on city income tax rates, Rudy did stimulate business growth within the city limits. If he hadn't succeded at lowering costs for businesses to relocate to NYCity, he wouldn't have been reelected. The Democrat controlled City Council understood that too, and they supported improving the business climate.
You think Rudy is the savior of the GOP. From my conservative perspective, no matter how you slice it, Rudy is a liberal.
I did not say he was the savior of the GOP. I personally think he would make a great president. I don't care if he is he has Liberal tendencies. What I do know is that all in all he has been a Loyal Republican and has been a strong fiscal conservative and has the right stands on the GWOT so to me he is among my favorite contenders. He is not the only guy I am looking at.
1. Giuliani
2. Romney
3. Sanford
Is where my list stands at this moment.
"If Rudy didn't support big government, he would have made an EFFORT to slash the budget."
You would have to apply that standard to almost every Republican in elected office in the past 10 years then.
"Add that $4.5 billion deficit "
You mean the deficit after the 9/11 attacks and hard recession? "From what I've read crime began dropping under the Dinkens admin" Yeah they did abit, then they started to drop like a rock under Rudy. Rudy took a city that would make Detroit look like Vermont crime and quality of life wise and turned it into America's Shining Jewel again.