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Monday, October 17, 2011

Costs Of The Occupiers

Protesters on Wall Street and elsewhere are acting out on your dime.

The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the Tea Party. But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of the costs of the aimless occupiers.

In New York City, government officials estimate the month-long siege of Zuccotti Park has now imposed $3.2 million in overtime police costs on the public. On Thursday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office pressured left-wing activists to vacate the park for cleaning, Occupy Wall Street urged sympathizers to flood the city’s customer-services lines: “Call 311 and tell Bloomberg not to evict us!”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This "more popular than the tea party" movement had a grand total of 6 participants in a New Jersey town, around a hundred in a large California city, way less than a hundred in Colorado... I can go on, but why? Gettin' it, yet?

Anonymous said...

Will NYC voters hold Bloomberg responsible for his cowardice on this matter when re-election time rolls around? Doubt it.