Buried in an AP interview yesterday was this interesting exchange about ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's principles for shoring up entitlements:
Giuliani: … refused to rule out raising taxes to offset a Social Security shortfall. He said he would assemble a bipartisan group to develop ideas for fixing Social Security, perhaps even before his inauguration. "I am opposed to tax increases, but I would look at whatever proposal they came up with and try to figure out how we can come up with a bipartisan way to do it,'' Giuliani said, adding that potential solutions must come from both parties. "The reality is, I'm more concerned about Medicare and Medicaid than I am with Social Security, because I'm pretty sure we can solve Social Security.''
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Rudy the man, is full of generalities and has no good answer to..., well almost anything. He is another one of those people who puts together a blue-ribbon panel so he doesn't have to do the hard work and come up with a solution by working on it himself. Also, the major benefit is that, if it goes south (my humblest apologies to our southern neighbor) he can always say that the panel did something wrong, he was just implementing their recommendations.
Not a very good mark of a leader, as opposed to a manager.
Posted by beneficial | September 26, 2007 11:23 AM