rssRudy Giuliani Comes Out for Spending Cuts
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 at 2:05 pm
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Ben Smith clips an interview that noted Republican primary voter repellent Rudy Giuliani gave to New York radio.
The measures that [President Obama]‘s taken don’t seem to me to be the measures that would be needed to an economy that’s in a serious recession… In a situation like this, you don’t spend more money, you don’t spend historic amounts of money, you reduce the amount of money that you’re spending. you reduce government spending… pretty much across the board make major reductions, get your expenses down.
This is what was tried, with disastrous results, by President Herbert Hoover’s administration.
Smith notes that Giuliani thinks his “stance on the stimulus would likely be a campaign issue” if he made a comeback and ran for governor of New York. This seems wrongheaded after Republican congressional candidate Jim Tedisco blew a 20-point lead running an anti-stimulus campaign against Democrat Scott Murphy, in a district that had been safely Republican until 2006.
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6 Comments
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 11:57 am
It is OK Rudy, you have the fundamental right to remain stupid. Now, be happy and go away. Let those who have had at least ECON 101 deal with this.
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
Rudy Giuliani, the man that called Barack Obama (laughing) “A Community Organizer? What's a Community Organizer???He He.”
Well, Rudy, right now WE Call him Mr. President.
America is a Community: he is organizing it.
The World is a Community: he is organizing it.
I ask; “What is a Community Criticiser?”
” Rudy?”
Maybe you can run for that position, Rudy. You'll have a LOT of Republicans running against you for that position, though (most of them).
So, in 2009, what's the New York Joke?
“Rudy?”
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
“This is what was tried, with disastrous results, by President Herbert Hoover’s administration.”
Look at this http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/budget.php
Now tell me where Hoover reduced spending?
In the election vs Roosevelt, John Garner, Roosevelt's running mate called Hoover, “the greatest spending administration in peacetime in all of history.” He forgot to mention, “so far”
PS- Missed your great reporting at Reason. Glad to have found you here.
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
It is OK Rudy, you have the fundamental right to remain stupid. Now, be happy and go away. Let those who have had at least ECON 101 deal with this.
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Rudy Giuliani, the man that called Barack Obama (laughing) “A Community Organizer? What's a Community Organizer???He He.”
Well, Rudy, right now WE Call him Mr. President.
America is a Community: he is organizing it.
The World is a Community: he is organizing it.
I ask; “What is a Community Criticiser?”
” Rudy?”
Maybe you can run for that position, Rudy. You'll have a LOT of Republicans running against you for that position, though (most of them).
So, in 2009, what's the New York Joke?
“Rudy?”
Comment posted April 7, 2009 @ 7:54 pm
“This is what was tried, with disastrous results, by President Herbert Hoover’s administration.”
Look at this http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/budget.php
Now tell me where Hoover reduced spending?
In the election vs Roosevelt, John Garner, Roosevelt's running mate called Hoover, “the greatest spending administration in peacetime in all of history.” He forgot to mention, “so far”
PS- Missed your great reporting at Reason. Glad to have found you here.
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