Reply #1: Not only that. Under Jason Turner, Guiliani made it a requirement to [View All]

receive welfare, you had to take a "volunteer" job for the City, which meant stuff like cleaning the parks for like 15 hours a week.
http://www.iacenter.org/turner.htm
This meant firing civil servants (read, union workers) to get indentured servitude. I think welfare mothers had to donate some of their payments to pay for daycare too. I can only imagine Guiliani making the refugees clean and mop the Astrodome before they are allowed to board a bus to get out.

Plus his budget closed senior citizen centers, severely cut the hours that libraries were open, and he stood for "law and order" even it meant looking a little (okay, a lot) fascist. He was vile and despicable.

He was not the administrator and manager that he would have America believe, especially after 9-11. His successor, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is running ads for re-election, reminding NYC voters how much the City sucked before HE was elected. 'Nuff said.