We will leave it up to the reader to determine
whether Rudy Giuliani has made serious errors in in judgment. Rudy has sometimes
supported a Conservative Christian position especially when it comes to Church and State
issues (But he flip flops so much you can't really tell what he believes) But, it is
apparent from the data collected, that the Constitution and First Amendment may be in
danger from his past and future actions.
There are several Moral issues involving his divorce from
his previous wife which will be addressed in a later article. Why do his children do
not want anything to do with him? They Know!
How can a man blatently take credit for constantly
working at the World Trade Center site, but in fact only spend 29 hours in three
months. He was trying to claim a connection with the 9/11 heros. Shame on you
Mr. Giuliani!
How can a man claim to leave a surplus when he left
office, but in fact left a deficit which grew larger because of his mis management of New
Yorks finances? Sounds like a Bush thing to me.
Rudy Giuliani's office like others we called, stated that
his position is that Hinduism or Wicca aren't "Real" religions." What
is a real religion, Mr. Giuliani? What you have been practicing? Read the
following and remember: "By their Works may they be known." This is a
summary of information collected from several sources about Rudy Giuliani.
(Remember it is best to investigate on your own when
looking at allegations about anyone. Don't believe us, think for
yourself and investigate for yourself! And remember, the Religious Freedom Coalition
does not represent any political party nor do we recommend any political candidate, nor
are we involving ourselves in the political process. This information is only for
students of Rudy Giuliani)
Republican
Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani likes to quote Democrat Hillary Clinton's views on
the free market. He used one of his favorite lines last night in the GOP debate
in Michigan: "The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free
market is the most destructive force in modern America. I mean, just get an idea of where
the philosophy comes from."
Except Clinton didn't use the word
"destructive."
In her 1996 book It
Takes a Village, she quoted a line from author Alan Ehrenhalt's book about the
decline of community life, The
Lost City: "The unfettered free market has been the most radically
disruptive force in American life in the last generation."
Asked about the idea in a March 1996 C-SPAN interview,
Clinton said: "I believe that. That's why I put it in the book." She went on to
call the market "the driving force behind our prosperity" but said "it
cannot be permitted to just run roughshod over people's lives."
What's the difference? Judge for yourself. Here are
Dictionary.com's definitions:
Destructive: "Tending
to destroy; causing destruction or much damage. ... Tending to overthrow, disprove, or
discredit."
Disruptive: "Causing,
tending to cause, or caused by disruption."
Disruption: "To throw
into confusion or disorder. ... To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or
procedure of. ... To break or burst; rupture."
Update at 11:15 a.m. ET: At a GOP debate back in May, Giuliani quoted
Clinton this way: "We're looking at a race here in which the leading Democratic
candidate for president of the United States has said that the unfettered free market is
the most disastrous thing in modern America. That's a quote -- or that's a quote she
agreed with."
Disastrous: "Causing
great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous."
HMMMMMMMMM. Is he really THAT stupid? Or just wants
you to think the Quote was a Mistake. Uh Oh another Bush!
Giuliani Boasts of Surplus - Reality Is
He Fudged the Facts!!
Excerpts from an article in the New York Times by Michael
Cooper
Published: August 25, 2007
Rudolph
W. Giuliani has been broadcasting radio advertisements in Iowa and other states far
from the city he once led stating that as mayor of New York, he “turned a $2.3
billion deficit into a multibillion dollar surplus.”
The assertion, which Mr. Giuliani has repeated on the
trail as he has promoted his fiscal conservatism, is somewhat misleading, independent
fiscal monitors said. In fact, Mr. Giuliani left his successor, Michael
R. Bloomberg, with a bigger deficit than the one Mr. Giuliani had to deal with when he
arrived in 1994. And that deficit would have been large even if the city had not been
attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
“He inherited a gap, and he left a gap for his
successor,” Ronnie Lowenstein, the director of the city’s Independent
Budget Office, a nonpartisan agency that monitors the city budget, said of Mr.
Giuliani. “The city was budgeting as though the good times were not going to end, but
sooner or later they always do.”
The Giuliani campaign defended the advertisement, noting
that it merely states that Mr. Giuliani created a multibillion-dollar surplus, not that he
passed one on to his successor.
Mr. Giuliani’s eight years of fiscal stewardship of
the city was initially marked by a new brand of conservative budgeting principles in which
he cut spending, cut taxes and cut the payroll. Later, when the booming stock market of
the late 1990s pumped revenues into the city’s coffers, Mr. Giuliani was able to cut
taxes, increase spending above the rate of inflation, and still post big surpluses.
But the economy cooled near the end of Mr.
Giuliani’s second term, and he spent most of the roughly $3 billion surplus he had
accumulated to balance his final budget, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002. Even
before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Giuliani projected that his successor would face a $2.8
billion gap the next year. After the attacks, that gap climbed to $4.8 billion in a $42.3
billion budget.
Faced with such a huge deficit, which continued to grow
as the economic aftershocks of the attacks continued and the costs of some of the Giuliani
administration’s policies came due, the next mayor, Mr. Bloomberg, was forced to take
the extraordinary steps of borrowing to pay for operating expenses, cutting programs, and
raising property taxes by 18.5 percent to balance the budget.
Joseph
J. Lhota, a former budget director and deputy mayor to Mr. Giuliani, said that Mr.
Giuliani kept the rate of spending growth during his eight years in office below that of
the state and federal governments, and most other states. Mr. Lhota credited Mr. Giuliani
with making tax cuts a priority for the city — Mr. Giuliani often speaks of having
cut taxes 23 times — and of using the budget to push his priorities, like beefing up
public safety.
“Prior to Mayor Giuliani, there never was a
discussion of lowering taxes in New York,” Mr. Lhota said. “By the end the
debate became, ‘Which taxes should we cut?’ ”
Mr. Lhota said that the Giuliani administration cut the
budget shortly before leaving office to leave the city in a better position. He noted that
the fiscal year in which Mr. Bloomberg took over from Mr. Giuliani ended with a surplus of
$677 million. But that surplus was fed in part by nearly $500 million in borrowing by the
Bloomberg administration. And it made only a small dent in the huge gap Mr. Bloomberg had
to close that June in his first budget — a gap inherited from the Giuliani
administration, much of which was expected even before Sept. 11.
Mr. Giuliani often promotes his fiscal conservatism on
the campaign trail to try to appeal to Republican voters who might be wary of his support
of abortion
rights, gun control and gay rights. But an examination of his fiscal record as mayor of
New York City shows that his legacy defies easy ideological labeling.
Mr. Giuliani took office in 1994 and immediately
administered a strong dose of fiscally conservative policies on a city known for generous
social services programs and union contracts. The city was near the end of a long economic
downturn, and Mr. Giuliani cut taxes while slashing the work force and curbing spending to
close the $2.3 billion budget gap he inherited.
Mr. Lhota said the administration faced a severe cash
crunch when it took office. Abraham M. Lackman, Mr. Giuliani’s first budget director,
said that in addition to having to close a $2.3 billion deficit in its first budget, the
administration took office worrying that it might not have enough cash on hand to meet
payroll because some of the revenues that were counted on in the inherited budget were not
likely to materialize.
Mr. Giuliani pushed through an austere budget that year.
He went on to push mergers of city agencies, incorporating the old transit and housing
police forces into the New York Police Department. He sold the city’s television
station. And he cut taxes.
But, Mr. Giuliani eased up on the reins of spending
during his second term, as the stock market boom pumped tax revenues into the city
coffers. An analysis by the Citizens
Budget Commission, a business-backed fiscal watchdog group, found that spending rose
an average of 6.3 percent a year during Mr. Giuliani’s second term — well above
the rate of inflation. And Mr. Giuliani went on a hiring spree, in the end leaving the
city work force slightly bigger than he found it, but changing its composition by adding
more teachers and police officers while shedding jobs in social services agencies.
In 2000, near the height of the stock market boom, Mr.
Giuliani supported a measure to put less money in the pension funds for the city’s
retirees. By recognizing the funds’ investment gains at once — instead of
phasing them in over years to smooth out sharp gains and losses — he was able to
spend $800 million over two years that the city otherwise would have had to invest in its
pension funds. Fiscal monitors, including the city comptroller’s office, warned that
the practice was irresponsible, because the money could be needed to cushion the blow of a
market downturn.
To win the support of the city’s unions, which
needed to sign off on the pension change, Mr. Giuliani agreed to sweeten the pensions of
city workers, eliminating the payments that some were required to contribute to the
pension system and giving others up to two years of credit toward their retirements.
“I’ve never had a negotiation that went so
smoothly or so effectively,” recalled Randi
Weingarten, who had a seat at the table as the chairwoman of the Municipal Labor
Committee, an umbrella group of city unions.
But when Mr. Bloomberg took office amid a deteriorating
economy, the value of the pension funds dropped significantly, forcing the new mayor to
pump more money into them when the city could least afford to.
Long before Sept. 11, fiscal monitors warned that Mr.
Giuliani’s last budget would leave his successor facing a big gap. In the spring of
2001, the state comptroller’s office said that the city was projecting the largest
out-year gaps in a generation.
E. J. McMahon, a senior fellow at the Manhattan
Institute, a conservative research organization that has often been supportive of Mr.
Giuliani, wrote an article that July warning that “Seven years after Mayor Giuliani
led New York out of its last fiscal crisis, the city’s budget has now come almost
full circle.”
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