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To: RetiredNow who wrote (366697)	1/13/2008 2:45:48 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1571616

>He cleaned up New York and balanced New York's budget, didn't he? Cities have generally done better in the U.S. since 1990 (at least more than their rock bottoming in the 1960s-1980s. Not to say that Giuliani did a bad job, but he wasn't great -- he would've been a nothing if 9/11 didn't happen. factcheck.org Giuliani's radio ad also asserts that he "turned a 2.3 billion deficit into a multibillion-dollar surplus" in New York. Well, not if you're comparing what he inherited with what he left, which would be a logical way to look at it. When he took office in 1994, Giuliani was indeed facing a $2.3 billion deficit for the next fiscal year. But Giuliani's last budget, issued in May 2001 – before 9/11 – for fiscal 2002, projected a deficit of nearly $2.8 billion in fiscal 2003, the first budget year the new mayor would face.