I disagree with your premise. However, if you know anything about New York City politics, Rudy was a lame duck at the time and was deferring the next mayor to make the cuts to balance the budget.
During Rudy's whole tenure, they'd use a "projected budget defecit" as the impetus to get the loonies in the city council and the union bigwigs to CUT spending. OUTSOURCE government jobs to the private sector. Move people from WELFARE to work, etc. All good CONSERVATIVE values.
Save your pro-Rudy ramblings for someone who cares. I know all about NYCity, born and raised. The Big Apple was a high taxed liberal socialist run hellhole when I lived there. After eight years as Mayor, NY remained a high taxed liberal socialist hellhole under Rudy.
You've got about 70% registered Democrats and maybe 20% registered Republicans. Who do you think elected Rudy twice. Republicans? Maybe conservatives? There are no elected conservatives holding office in NYCity! Unless you count that SI sell out, Vito Fossella. LOL
Despite all of his charisma and the wonderful leadership he showed after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is not a Reagan Republican. To the contrary, Giuliani is another Christie Todd Whitman, another Arlen Specter, another Olympia Snowe. He's a throwback to the "bad old days" before Reagan, when the GOP was run by moderate Country Club Republicans who considered conservatives to be extremists. Trying to revive that failed strategy again is likely to lead to a Democratic President in 2008 and numerous setbacks for the Republican Party.
Thank you John Hawkins.