ignorant...and scary. Everytime I see that picture I like him more! He's got guts and he's got a sense of humor.
George Will:
Talking about the decline of NYC. Conventional wisdom was that to be mayor of NYC was to be dead end and an impossible job.
Only 3 presidents were ever former mayors.
Mayor of NYC has more people than 39 other states, more difficult to govern than any of the states. A seriously troubled place because of its liberalism.
Produced governance by grievance groups and learned dependency on a welfare state.
But then came a man (Rudy) who said "Millions of people from across the world have acome here and didn't come here to be taken care of by the government. They came here to take care of themselves."
Rudy said 70% of long term prisoners in NYC come from homes without fathers so the best social programs would be called fatherhood.
He said of the school system it's time to go to a choice system and break up the monolopy.
He said he fought bilingual education. He restored the City Univesity to what it had been -- the Harvard to the working class. Then it went to open admissions and no longer was an avenue to upward mobility.