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Citizens Union   How Should the City Close It's $5 Billion
Budget Deficit?  by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Dec 07, 2002
 Remarks given at a conference hosted by the Citizen's Budget
Commission, December 7, 2002.  The Bucks Start Where? Who is
going to solve New York's fiscal crisis Â­ Washington, Albany,
or the city itself? Transcript of President George W. Bush's
Economic Proposal Governor George Pataki's State of the State
Address Mayor Michael Bloomberg's remarks at the Citizens Budget
Commission City Council Speaker Gifford Miller's Reaction to the
Bush Proposal  The mayor's job is not just to balance the books.
The mayor must ensure that New York City not only survives, but
that it thrives. And if we don't do that, we don't have a
future.  That's what I had in mind last January when I presented
the budget for the current fiscal year. No one thought then, or
last June when the budget was adopted by the City Council, that
it was the right moment to