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Cato Institute Looks at Giuliani's Fiscal Record As Mayor
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| 3/5/07
Posted on 03/05/2007 8:06:17 AM PST by areafiftyone
A new poll shows that Rudy Giuliani has pulled into the frontrunner position for the Republican nomination for President. Thus, it is worth looking at his fiscal performance as New York City Mayor (1994 through 2001).
A good source of data are the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports issued by the city’s comptroller. See the CAFR for fiscal 2002, which contains 10 years of historical data.
Total NYC general fund expenditures.
1994: $31.3 billion
2001: $40.2 billion
representing a 3.6 percent average growth rate.
NYC Outstanding General Obligation Bonds.
1994: $22.9 billion
2001: $26.8 billion
representing a 2.3 percent average growth rate.
The data suggest that Giuliani exerted reasonable fiscal control, particularly in comparison to prior NYC mayors, or President Bush. For example, NYC debt more than doubled in the five years prior to Giuliani entering office. But more analysis needs to be done.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; giuliani; rudy; rudy2008
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To: DKNY
In actual words, you are a liar.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:25:49 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Maybe not to make it into a media circus because of his presence? I'm sure he had a good reason.
Think back to the last graduation ceremony you attended - probably your own graduation from kindergarden. Think you would have missed much if you had not went?
To: republicanwizard
I'm sure he had a good reason. Share it with me, if you are so sure.
83
posted on
03/05/2007 11:27:19 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: Fierce Allegiance
It was the spell checker honest! :) chief = chef.
To: areafiftyone; adam_az; airborne; Alberta's Child; Arizona Carolyn; Arthur Wildfire! March; ...
Obviously Giuliani is not the front runner, and Cato, the no-borders gang, is not qualified to weigh-in on anything regarding their pal No-borders-Rudy.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:27:47 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: Fierce Allegiance
You're the liar for claiming you didn't call JW a scumbag. You disguised it but you did say it.
86
posted on
03/05/2007 11:29:18 AM PST
by
DKNY
("You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher)
To: areafiftyone
I find it pretty telling that a thread about the apparently good financial sense Rudy managed New York with denigrated immediately into off-the-topic mudslinging. People are scared, and it shows.
87
posted on
03/05/2007 11:30:23 AM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(If every Republican is a RINO, then no Republican is a RINO.)
To: Joan Wilder
LOL! I am no perfect speller, that one definitely gets a pass, with a smile.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:31:13 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: Joan Wilder; DKNY
Thanks to your son for his service and to you for raising him so well.
Re. the dialog... So, how do you like these social conservatives? Great people aren't they? :-)
LBT
-=-=-
89
posted on
03/05/2007 11:32:11 AM PST
by
LiberalBassTurds
(Peace is the short interlude between wars.)
To: DKNY; Joan Wilder
You're the liar for claiming you didn't call JW a scumbag. You disguised it but you did say it. ONLY!! if Rudy skipping his son's HS graduation doesn't bother her. Your statement is correct ONLY IF the condition I mentioned above is correct.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:33:03 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: Plutarch
Not to mention Freeper fave, free-spending Duncan Hunter.Hunter spends on WAR. You remembe that WAR we're in? Have you complained about the republican congress/WH that have supported the same spending?
STATEMENT OF REP. HUNTER IN VOTING AGAINST THE TRANSPORTATION BILL
The House and Senate approved a $218 billion transportation funding bill which included billions of dollars in questionable, non-transportation funding. A list of some of those projects follows Rep. Duncan Hunter's (R-CA) statement.
"At a time when the Army faces a shortage of $1.7 billion in basic ammunition and our Marines are short $193 million, the highway bill contains $9 billion in funding for such things as a botanical garden, museum exhibits and a film on infrastructure awareness.'
"While I support funding to build and repair our highways and this bill has many good projects, I could not in good conscience vote for legislation which overspends the balanced budget and will possibly take money away from our national
defense."http://www.house.gov/hunter/news_prior_2006/hiway.htm
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:33:32 AM PST
by
AuntB
(Every person who enters the U.S. illegally--from anywhere--increases the likelihood of another 9/11)
To: Fierce Allegiance
I have this feeling about Donna Hanover. I know another person who can't attend things for his kids when his wife is there. And she says all these awful things about him and the kids tell him when he sees them. Bitterness can be horrible.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:33:44 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
To: areafiftyone
Does he respect the U.S. Constitution or not? If not, he doesn't need to be president.
93
posted on
03/05/2007 11:35:04 AM PST
by
Sloth
(The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
To: editor-surveyor
and Cato, the no-borders gang, is not qualified to weigh-in on anything regarding their pal No-borders-Rudy.Birds of a 'New York Sanctuary City' feathers.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:35:32 AM PST
by
AuntB
(Every person who enters the U.S. illegally--from anywhere--increases the likelihood of another 9/11)
To: Sloth
Does he respect the U.S. Constitution or not? Well you tell me? Reagan hired him for his DOJ because he didn't?
95
posted on
03/05/2007 11:37:11 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
To: Fierce Allegiance
I'm not the one making the hysterical accusations around here. You are. The burden of proof is upon the accuser, not the accused.
To: areafiftyone
You know my ex? She tries alot of those things. It doesn't work, though, because I love my kids and will do anything for them. They are headstrong, and make up their own minds, and choose to ignore their mothers mudslinging, thankfully. I don't care what the ex says, I will continue to go to every event of theirs i can make, and the big ones, I'll move mountains to make sure I attend.
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posted on
03/05/2007 11:37:46 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: areafiftyone
[.. Jeeze did you say something new??? searching your post....... NOPE! ..]
Same ol' propaganda.. and hyperbole..
98
posted on
03/05/2007 11:39:03 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: LiberalBassTurds
Pretty sad, it's a case of a few bad apples giving the rest a bad name.
99
posted on
03/05/2007 11:39:33 AM PST
by
DKNY
("You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher)
To: republicanwizard
100
posted on
03/05/2007 11:39:57 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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