More to consider about Rudy

Here is something for those of you considering supporting Julie Annie in the upcoming presidential dust up to chew on. You already know that he favors gun control, saying that while he believes that the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right to own firearms that the state has a right to place "reasonable" controls on the exercise of that right. To find out what he considers "reasonable" one only need to examine the New York City gun laws which he championed and has never repudiated.

I'm sure that you also know that he supports abortion and is even on record as saying that taxpayer funds should be used to pay for abortion for the poor.

I'm sure that you're also aware that he favors amnesty for illegal aliens and an open border policy disguised as a "guest worker program". This would, of course, create a permanent hard-left Democrat majority in the House, Senate and White House and most state governments which would be impossible to break for at least a century. The end product of which would be to transform the United States in to a European style socialist state. A socialist state which would lack the will and the financial wherewithal to fight the growing Islamofascist tide which is threatening to take the world into a new dark age even more savage and backward than the original.

What you may not be aware of is that Rudy is at least partly responsible for the collapse of the savings and loan industry and the economic recession in the late 1980s. The recession which swept Bill Clinton into the White House, and indirectly has allowed his wife to step into front runner status in the current Democrat primary.

You see before becoming mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani was an overzealous, out-of-control federal prosecutor. In addition to doing some very good things like putting away some mob figures he also went on a crusade against Wall Street which wound up doing a great deal of harm to the nation's economy.

Here is a sample from an essay about Giuliani's part in the recession of 1990:

However, it also is clear that the U.S. economy failed to recover quickly after the initial downturn, and we hold that the Wall Street prosecutions and their aftermath played a role in that economic failure. What we try to establish in this paper is that the financial wreckage that occurred in the wake of these unjustified prosecutions had the effect of helping to create and sustain an economic crisis in the U.S., and that includes at least some (but not all) of the Savings and Loan crises. To put it another way, Giuliani, his fellow prosecutors, and the horde of politicians and journalists who served as cheerleaders for the prosecution received their share of awards and accolades, and (for some) a financial windfall; millions of other people who depended upon a smooth functioning financial system for their livelihoods found themselves in
unemployment lines.

The rest, as a PDF can be found here.