IMAGINE
NO RUDY...
1. Reduced spending growth.
2. Lower Tax Rates.
3. Regulatory Reform.
4. Sound monetary policy.
((((((((((( RUDY PING )))))))))))))
Don’t you ever sleep? ;^)
And don’t forget his sound policy on oil independence:
Giuliani: Consider More Offshore Oil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812191/posts
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said everything has to be considered if the United States wants to break its reliance on foreign oil, including more drilling off Florida’s coast.
Calling the energy supply a major domestic problem, Giuliani said the nation needs to focus on nuclear power production and renewable energy sources. In the meantime it also needs to see what oil can be tapped, he said.
“Energy independence means everything has to be open for discussion,” Giuliani said when asked about offshore drilling. “The idea of having more oil under our command, so to speak, or within our orbit probably for some period of time is going to be important. The ultimate goal, however, should be renewable sources of energy.”
Oh I agree fiscal conservatism is important, BUT
Social Conservatism is substantially more important.
That’s why I will vote for, or write in, Fred or Duncan.
Sounds like Rudy would make a good VP.
While this is indeed all well and good it is merely like a unblemished face on a leper.
Leg 1. “I’ll grant amnesty to all illegals
Leg 2. “I’ll give them welfare for 20 years.
Leg 3. “I’ll remove all borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Then I will turn the stool upside down, because that way the the seat AKA the American tax payer will support you, better than they support you now.
I like those four pillars.
Rudy - Fiscal Conservative
Until he does, all his "fiscal conservatism" talk is just jibber-jabber.
Once again, Rudy’s clarity on big issues is brilliant.
Entitlement programs will negate any spending cuts, which Rudy fails to mention. No specifics on cutting government bureaucracies and departments
2. Lower Tax Rates
Means more tinkering with the tax code, more bread crumb tax cuts. Rudy won't reform the tax system
3. Regulatory Reform
The guy that wanted the government to regulate the firearm and tobacco industries is now calling for regulatory reform?
4. Sound monetary policy
Please repeat: Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. Rudy fails to mention these killers. Rudy fails to mention our trade deficit with China.
Rudy will be an even more liberal extension of the (failed regarding immigration) Bush presidency.
When Steve Forbes was seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1996, then Mayor Rudy Giuliani ridiculed his proposal to scrap the federal income tax code and replace it with a simple flat-tax. Giuliani called Forbes plan a "mistake" and said if implemented "would really be a disaster."
Despite these smears, Steve Forbes now believes Rudy embraces the flat-tax concept and endorsed him for president claiming he "will inspire the next generation of the Reagan Revolution."
Apparently Forbes forgot that when running for mayor, Rudy Giuliani showcased his liberal credentials and boasted he would "rekindle the Rockefeller, Javits Lefkowitz tradition" of the Republican Party and "produce the kind of change New York City saw with Fiorella LaGuardia and with John Lindsay."
Here's a sampling of the change the Rockefeller-Lindsay brand of Republican liberalism gave New York: During Governor Rockefeller's 14-year tenure, he brought New York State to the verge of bankruptcy. When Rocky entered office, his first budget was $2 billion, when he left office his last budget was $8.7 billion. Thanks to 18 tax increases he signed into law, New Yorkers were the most heavily taxed citizens in the nation and their state had the highest public debt in the nation. Viewing the mess he inherited from Rockefeller, Democratic Governor Hugh Carey said: "I've seen delicatessens in bankruptcy in better shape than the State of New York."
The Upper East Side Republican-liberal social engineer mayor, John Lindsay, financed New York City's big government agenda with creative fiscal gimmicks including phantom revenues, capitalization of expenses, short-term debt rollovers, false revenue estimates and excessive long-term borrowing. And Lindsay increased nuisance taxes, water rates, sewer taxes, commercial rent tax and instituted the city personal income, general corporation and unincorporated business taxes.
Mayor Lindsay's reckless fiscal policies were directly responsible for the City's 1975 default on debt.
Following in their footsteps, Mayor Giuliani declared that pledging no new tax increases is "political pandering." He also said "when I ran for mayor both times, I was asked very, very often to do the following: Pledge that you will never raise taxes. I refused to do that. Pledge that you will lower taxes. I refused to do that."
When Giuliani endorsed liberal icon Mario Cuomo for governor in 1994, he called the Republican-Conservative George Pataki's 25 percent state income tax cut (cloned from the Forbes-inspired New Jersey income tax cut) "irresponsible" and a "shell game that would hurt everyone in the state."
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.
Rudy Giuliani, a legatee of Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay, fails on every fiscal and cultural issue that are dear to conservatives. And one can only hope that Steve Forbes and his friends will learn before it's too late that life-long liberal Rudy Giuliani is employing conservative rhetoric merely to patronize them.
And we mustn’t forget that when Giuliani endorsed Democrat Mario Cuomo for re-election to a fourth term as governor in 1994, he did so, he said, because Republican George Pataki had “a very right-wing voting record” and because Pataki proposed an “irresponsible” 25 percent state income tax cut.From: Rudy Giuliani, Life Long Liberal
Now this is something new from a politician's mouth -- I like it.
I'm not sure what Rudy means by this, but until the Federal Reserve accepts that inflation is caused by the government, not the economy, we're never going to have proper monetary policy.
Uninspiring pap.
pap
n.
Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.
Material lacking real value or substance: TV shows that offer nothing but pap.
Slang. Money and favors obtained as political patronage: “self-seeking politicians primarily interested in patronage, privilege, and pap” (Fiorello H. La Guardia).
1. Reduced spending growth. - oh that’s bold.....how about slashing waste and pork, I guess not.
2. Lower Tax Rates. - BS - tax REFORM
3. Regulatory Reform. - or perhaps the removal of redundant and useless regulation?????
4. Sound monetary policy. - like not spending more than you take in?
D-
Can do better.