[M. Thatcher]

It is intellectually dishonest to keep posting this chart without a corresponding chart of annual increase in city receipts.
Incredible hypocrisy. It is intellectually dishonest to pretend that wild increases in spending are fiscally conservative.

You are simply wrong. Rudy ran a frigging SURPLUS.

Diarrheac posting of your only-half-the-story chart is indefensible, but doesn't surprise me.

[flashbunny]

"You are simply wrong. Rudy ran a frigging SURPLUS."

Hmmm. Really?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812568/posts

"Forbes points to Rudy's fiscal management of New York City as proof of his conservatism. "Giuliani," he claims, "turned an inherited deficit [$2.3 billion] into a multimillion dollar surplus." It's true that during Giuliani's first term when times were tough, he contained costs and made some tax cuts. But what Forbes failed to point out is that in Rudy's second term, when the economy was booming, he abandoned fiscal restraint and became a big-spending liberal. City budget expenditures jumped 25 percent – twice the inflation rate – and Giuliani left his successor a projected operating deficit of $4.5 billion and New York's citizens with the highest tax burden in any major municipality in America."

[Mojave]

You are simply wrong. Rudy ran a frigging SURPLUS. Diarrheac posting of your only-half-the-story chart is indefensible, but doesn't surprise me.

More of your "diarrheac" dishonesty, this time in the form of a red herring. I never said anything about a SURPLUS, "frigging" or otherwise. I pointed out Rudy's wild spending increases; you ignored the facts and continued spewed.

Your pretense that wild increases in spending are fiscally conservative is intellectually and ethically bankrupt. Rather like Rudy's politics.