Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says a letter from Caterpillar is proof the health care bill now being lobbied for by the democrats is not the answer. Cat's letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican leader John Boehner claims the health care bill will cost the company $100-million. Giuliani tells 1470 WMBD that's just a tip of the iceberg. "Translate that into the number of jobs they're going to have to contract or the number of jobs they won't be able to create," Giuliani says, "because they're paying another $100-million to health care."
Giuliani feels Obama's presidency, domestically, has been - in his words - "a very extreme march to the left."
"This country works well when the government knows its limits and not when the government tries to be unlimited," Giuliani says. "I'm afraid to say that's the President's philosophy and particularly the philosophy of Nancy Pelosi and (House Majority Leader) Senator Reid who he lets run everything."
Guiliani was the first to criticize the administration's plans to try 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in New York. "I predicted four months ago (Obama) would change his mind, he just didn't know it yet," says Giuliani. "He's now doing something that is very damaging to the sense of leadership you have to have in this country...he now can't make up his mind."
That may sound like someone who's thinking about running for President. But, Giuliani says he won't do anything about it until after 2010. "That's like thinking about the Super Bowl and not worrying about the playoffs."
Guiliani was in Peoria as part of Congressman Mark Kirk's campaign for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Obama.
