He cautioned the city not to turn the event into an anti-Arab firestorm. He mocked the state's lax gun rules, which are designed to reduce the hassle of purchasing a gun. Giuliani's policies are always aggressive, but they sometimes come from the right and sometimes from the left. He not only criticized the Republican welfare bill, he scolded his party for supporting it. Tunnel vs. tolls.
Most products now have to be trucked through the city.
That clogs roads, pollutes the air, ruins the highway, and costs the Brooklyn port business. Yet previous Democratic administrations ignored the tunnel idea. They weren't in the habit of shaking up the status quo and were reluctant to take on the powerful Port Authority, which likes those truck tolls. But there are reasons Giuliani is a Republican. His first three budgets featured steep spending cuts that were considered savage by Democrats, especially in education and hospitals.