You missed the point. Making the city run more effectively, while not cutting city services or reducing spending, doesn't mean he did a good job. Rooty left behind a $2-billion deficit and increased debt for the city, topping $42-billion by the time he left office. Second largest debt to the federal govt debt. An even larger debt then the entire state of California was running at the time.
>>>>>He’s only a politician. What do you expect?
I expect conservatives not to give Rooty Toot kudos for his liberalism. From a conservative perspective, Rooty`s final fiscal record as Mayor of NYC was abysmal.
But HOW could he have done better? Maybe I am more tolerant that you, but politics is the art of the possible. For example, George Washington spent many winters in the company of anti-slavery advocates like Hamilton and Jay and Linvingstone, and he came to believe that slavery was wrong. Furthermore, being a practical man, he knew from his own experience how ineffecient slavery was. While he was president, he even went so far as to try to sell his farms to get rid of his slaves, or perhaps to raise enough money to buy out the Custis heirs. He couldn’t work the deal. When one fights a very well established system, even one which until about 1800, was a system in economy decay, it is hard, hard, hard to break with it. Much of Washington’s problem was his personal involvement. He was too deeply invested in it. Now that is probably the case with Rudy. Even if he moves to the national stage, he probably will be pulled back by the sheer weight of his experiences. But he was still a better mayor than any of his predecessors for many years.