The high price of ‘Occupation’

posted at 12:14 pm on November 5, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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With the national debt in hailing distance of the $15 trillion mark (as of Friday at 2:32 p.m., ABC News had the current total at $14.97 trillion), the sum of $9 million is less than a drop in the bucket. Unless you’re one of the 99 percent, for whom $9 million is the enemy nine times over. Or unless you’re a city with its own herculean financial struggles like New York, which is $100 billion in the red.

That $9 million, in case you were wondering, is an approximate total expenditure on costs incurred by 18 major cities to date, all arising out of “Occupy” movement antics. New York’s cut, which is currently the largest, is estimated at $3.4 million—or at least it was as October 14.

But even when the amount was a paltry $2 million, Mayor Michael Bloomberg groused that theprotesters (whom he supported in the early days of the movement!) needed to “lay off the banks.” Bloomberg told Politico in early October that the protesters were

trying to … take away the jobs of people working in the city, take away the tax base that we have. We’re not going to have money to pay our municipal employees or anything else.

Bloomie knows a thing or two about cutting essential jobs and services, having laid off thousands of teachers, firefighters, and police (while miraculously finding the funds to install “green,” high-risk-to-pedestrian bike lanes all along Manhattan’s major thoroughfares).

Ironically, much of the cost to New York and other cities is to cover overtime police         details, in spite of which some reports suggest that citywide violent crime is up.

Here is an alphabetical list of the 18 cities compiled by Verum Serum. Take a drink if your hometown is represented.

1. Occupy Asheville—$170,000
2. Occupy Atlanta—$451,691
3. Occupy Austin—$78,000
4. Occupy Boston—$150,000
5. Occupy Charlotte—$1,700 per day
6. Occupy Denver—$365,000
7. Occupy Los Angeles—$45,000 (plus estimated $400,000 to repair the lawn)
8. Occupy Minneapolis—$200,000
9. Occupy New York—$3,400,000
10. Occupy Oakland—$2,000,000 for police overtime alone
11. Occupy Philadelphia—$500,000
12. Occupy Phoenix—$200,000
13. Occupy Portland—$208, 796
14. Occupy Raleigh—$51, 000
15. Occupy Sacramento—$300,000
16. Occupy San Diego—$49,000
17. Occupy San Francisco—$100,000
18. Occupy Seattle—$426,000

Total: $9,111,487

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