[Mike is acting like he can provide all those things, but he only has $50 billion. What he claims to be able to distribute will be closer to $50 trillion (over ten years).]
Bloomberg was probably the most fiscally-prudent NYC mayor in the past century, although that’s not necessarily saying much. He smacked the public employee unions around, with particular focus on the teachers and hospital employee unions. The question isn’t so much his general election appeal where, as a moderate, he’ll appeal to libertarians and libertines alike, in the middle portion of the electorate where elections are won. It’s whether someone as moderate as he is can win the Democratic primary. There is a reason that, in his three terms as mayor, he never tried out for the Democratic nomination.