Forum Post: liberal OWS cost taxpayers $13 million due to damage & city worker overtime! How much did Tea Party cost?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 24, 2011, 2:34 a.m. EST by BumpyTheBumper
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The $13 million is an estimated cost among several cities. That's called collateral damage.
Read here: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20111123/D9R6MS0G0.html
The Republican National Convention was held in New York City in 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/nyregion/14convention.html
QUOTE: the overall convention cost includes about $58 million that the city spent on police and other services, most of which will be reimbursed by the federal government, and $15 million in federal money that went to the Republican Party to pay for the convention staff salaries, which covered expenses like the $207,000 spent on the balloons that dropped from the ceiling after the president's speech.
This is a movement by the American people--we are taxpayers too!, that is also our money! Besides, we also know that it doesn't cost that much to clean up a part or to "partol" a group of peaceful, unarmed protesters. The city chose to go all out and put their entire police force on steroids and war gear--that's on them not us!
Perhaps this might enlighten you a bit, http://warisacrime.org/content/military-math
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As Beca points out, most of that expense was unnecessary, the City's [unwise] choice, not properly on OWS's tab.
But contrast it with the Tea Party. Not nearly such expense there, probably. Because . . . they didn't have to occupy anything in order to be heard and taken seriously. The media and political Establishment immediately embraced that corporate-sponsored movement as an authentic grassroots uprising to be taken very seriously. So they could stage their events, then go home to watch themselves on the evening news.
It was 2 weeks before OWS even made the front page of Google News. Without the unending physical presence of the occupation, the movement would have disappeared before anybody had heard about it.
So if American cities want reimbursement for their [mostly unnecessary] expenses due to OWS, they should send a bill to . . . Wall Street, and the Corporatocracy generally: they own the media/political System that made the occupation (as a strategy) necessary.
The Pentagon lost over two trillion dollars when Bush jnr opened the public coffers for his business friends to raid.
The tea party wasn't doing things right. If it costs the government money for us to exercise our first amendment rights...OH WELL. It is better than dumping it into another BAIL OUT.
We're just a bunch of people staying on a park.
If cities lose money over that its because they're stupid.
Looks like cost generated by poor decision making to me. Using a militarized police force to force citizens to succumb to a false proclamation of freedom is hardly apt leadership. At this rate it's just a matter of how much of our tax money they can squander until it all crumbles. Fight for change. Fight for hope.
What damage?? Why they pay over hour , how ask the police to come on extra time.... what the police is need for?? if there is a peak of use of public space , tax should cover it.
Good to know you are concerned over our tax money! Perhaps you might want to read this and support the effort to save us $1 Trillion dollars! http://warisacrime.org/content/how-save-trillion-dollars Peace!
If the stupid jerks had just ignored the protesters, the movement would have had little or no media attention. They chose to react with force and large numbers of cops. Don't distance yourselves from the tea party so much they are wrong about some things, but they are dead on about others. The banks want us divided, we are easier to beat that way. From the left and right all the free thinkers are coming to the same conclusions. Those politicians you see on TV are not the real Tea Party, they are intentionally stupid. The idea is to cause people to think the Libertarians are dumb. They have some beliefs I do not agree with but they are not dumb. They are socially liberal and economically conservative. A true conservative would never back a bailout or a subsidy or any other form of welfare. A real conservative believes in a sink or swim approach to all things having to do with money. The Libertarians are socially liberal, they support drug legalization, pro-choice, anti gun control, they have no problem with consensual sexual acts between adults of any kind, to include prostitution. They support gay marriage. I do not agree on some issues but the underlying belief that the government should not interfere in your life is a good one.
In my state some teabaggers just raised taxes on some people by 100%.
That will cost 100s of millions.
As we all know, teabaggers are liars. And what they cost us as a nation is quite probably no less than our soul. Not that it had to have turned out as it did. Fux, the Cocks and Sarah Palin shit all over what might have been a useful movement if they'd focused more on civil liberties and ending corporatism and militarism.
Hey mcmc...I'm supporting change all the way. I'm sure that all Tea Party members aren't liars. I'm hoping we can see some cooperation between the parties on some points of agreement. We'll need all the help we can get to go against this perverse institution.