Posted on 04/05/2007 5:23:50 AM PDT by areafiftyone
As mayor of New York City, Giuliani led an entity with a larger and more diverse population and economy than most of our states and many countries. His leadership example in the nation's largest city is a model for communities all across America, including our cities right here in the 15th District.
Rudy has a proven record of fiscal responsibility. The columnist George Will once said of him, ''His eight years as mayor of New York were the most successful episode of conservative governance in this country in the last 50 years.'' Mayor Giuliani inherited a $2.3 billion dollar budget deficit and turned it into a $2.9 billion surplus while cutting taxes 23 times and delivering balanced budgets.
The Giuliani administration saved taxpayers more than $16 billion by controlling the projected growth of city-funded spending to nearly half the growth of the city economy. Giuliani created a smaller, more efficient government by cutting the number of full-time, city-funded jobs by nearly 20 percent, excluding cops on the street and teachers in the classroom.
When Rudy took office in 1993, 1.1 million New Yorkers, one out of every seven, were on welfare. Under his leadership, New York City cut welfare rolls by more than 640,000 to the lowest number since 1966. He eliminated fraud and abuse and turned welfare offices into job centers. Although he has never backed away from controversy or confrontation, Mayor Giuliani accomplished these things working with a city council controlled by Democrats, proving his ability to work in a bipartisan manner.
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Not for me. I do not wnat a leader on the left.
Maybe if Rudy doesn’t get the nomination he could consider becoming the mayor of New Orleans, where his experience would work wonders.
Nothing personal, just civilization at stake here.
The more they say this the more you know they're covering up the opposite. Anyway, New York is just a city, far, far easier to manage than the biggest economy on earth. Giuliani is a liberal in a Republican suit, and my guess is that he'll outspend all previous Presidents. Already he's calling for taxpayers to fund abortions for the 'poor'.
OK, I’d love to see him re-elected mayor of NYC, but nothing about him makes me want him for POTUS, even if someone from PA thinks he should be (isn’t PA the same state that keeps electing Arlen Spector?)
Hope you enjoy your tax money being spent on abortions. That is Rudy’s plan
Rudy would have to bring NYFD with him.
Just checking in. Glad to see nothing’s changed. See y’all next week.....
Listen - as far as I’m concerned Abortion is NOT an issue for me as well as other Americans. You can push it all you want but that will turn off most Americans to any conservative candidate right now if that candidate decides to push the issue.
OK, I’d love to see him re-elected mayor of NYC, but nothing about him makes me want him for POTUS, even if someone from PA thinks he should be (isn’t PA the same state that keeps electing Arlen Spector?)
Hey, don’t blame the people of PA for Specter, our state GOP is run by Democrats.
How about your first or second amendment rights? Or Gay rights? Or Immigration? You might wish Rudy only had one minus, but wishing it doesn't make it so.
Rudy's Pro-Gay-Rights, Pro-CFR, Pro-Taxpayer-funded-Abortions, Pro-Gun-Control, Pro-Illegal-Immigration, Man-Made-Global-Warming stances make him about as liberal as you can be.
Oh and let's add in his stance against any kind of flat-tax. Yeppers Rudys da man, for the leftist folks anyway.
Exactly so. And voters who think that Republicans are going to move right after so many conservatives sat home in November are sadly mistaken. Our party will move more to the middle.
Then it will keep losing. If the reason the party lost in 2006 is the right would not vote for it. What the devil makes you think they will if you move futher left?
Doesn’t the Hyde amendment prohibit federal funding of abortions?
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You’re right Peach...November really spoke volumes to the Republican Party to get their act together.
OK, I’ll run my issue list.
Abortion
2nd Amendment
Illegals, no amnesty, rights welfare, send them back, secure the boarders.
Appt. Conservative judges to all Fed courts.
Disband the IRS & move to a Flat or Fair tax.
Repeal, McCain Feingold reform
Rudy is just another Mitt
Sort of. It only applies to Medicaid and there are a couple of exceptions, like rape.
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