Giuliani said his feelings now, in the years after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, are “probably as complicated” as they were when the attacks happened.
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New York can have its National September 11 Memorial Museum, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday, and everyone can “fool ourselves” into thinking the war on terrorism is over, but the war is still on 14 years after the 9/11 attacks occurred. The quotation has been passed around lately in response to the refugee crisis in Europe, but it has a domestic application here, too, in regards to New York City’s ballooning homeless population. He said that there were 40 percent more homeless people under my administration.
“Here is how ignorant Mayor de Blasio is. I go all over the world and people come up to me and tell me “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for” – and I like it when they say, “your firefighters and your police officers”, he said. “President, I don’t know how to tell you this but none of these people voted for you”. More than 60,000 people now sleep in shelters, a record high-and that doesn’t account for those living on the streets. That 40 percent was the number that went up in shelters. When confronted by members of the press, some asking condescending questions about being offended by public drinking, Brodie Enoch of Picture the Homeless shot back, “Every question that you ask could be solved with housing”, adding that “homelessness could be eradicated in about month”. Of course, there were more people in shelters, because Mike Bloomberg and I got them off the streets. A homeless man was caught urinating in front of Giuliani’s home in Manhattan.
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“I grabbed the commissioner’s arm, and I said: ‘Gosh we planned for everything, but we don’t have a plan for this one, and we’re just going to have to pray to God that we got it right, ‘” he said.
