[EagleUSA]

Far from being a liberal, he ran New York with a conservative’s priorities: government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets, he said, not to redistribute income, run a welfare state, or perform social engineering.
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I wonder how Rudy's blatantly pro-illegal immigrant support and welfare benefits posture fits into this description ?? If it isn't welfare and redistribution of wealth, what is it ?? Rudy is NOT a social conservative, by any stretch of the imagination, by his own admission and statements.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"Government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets".

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Wrong! Personal safety is very much an individual responsibility in a free nation. The expense of being protected, on a daily basis, is much too great to bear, unless you are a sheep.