Topic: How much cash have you sent to the Occupy movement?

[BMG]

How much? Likely way more than you realize! You see, you don't have to donate to the cause to support it financially it seems...

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=32348

Turns out there are costs associated with a tent city, few of which are being picked up by the occupiers. Michelle Malkin already did an excellent column on this but that was two weeks ago and the costs continue to rise. I’m just going to put together a list of costs mentioned in the press and I’ll continue to update this over the next few weeks:

    Occupy Asheville – $170,000
    Occupy Atlanta – $451,691
    Occupy Austin – $78,000
    Occupy Boston – $150,000
    Occupy Charlotte – $1,700 per day
    Occupy Denver $365,000
    Occupy LA – $45,000 plus estimated $400,000 to repair the lawn
    Occupy Minneapolis – $200,000
    Occupy New York – $3,400,000
    Occupy Oakland – $2,000,000 for police overtime alone
    Occupy Philadelphia – $500,000
    Occupy Phoenix – $200,000
    Occupy Portland – $208, 796
    Occupy Raleigh – $51, 000
    Occupy Sacramento – $300,000
    Occupy San Diego – $49,000
    Occupy San Francisco – $100,000
    Occupy Seattle – $426,000

Total: $9,111,487

Some of these numbers haven’t been updated in more than a week, so they’ll go up. And I’m sure I’ve missed a few cities. If anyone sees one that should be added, please send it or post it in the comments.

Yes, that's quite right - this list (incomplete as it is) shows that the taxpayers of the various cities where these occupiers are are on the hook for 9 mil - and this number is on the low side!

[trapeze]

I really don't have a problem with this. The OWS crowd is about as good an advertisement against liberals and their Marxist belief systems as one could possibly hope for.

Each day they seem to find a new way to lower themselves.

If there is any indication that they might be running out of money we might want to donate to them ourselves. At least through the fall of next year.

Ultimately, there will be extreme violence and riots. There is nothing like burning buildings and dead bodies to drive voters away from the Democrats.

[Predator Don]

I really don't have a problem with this. The OWS crowd is about as good an advertisement against liberals and their Marxist belief systems as one could possibly hope for.

Each day they seem to find a new way to lower themselves.

If there is any indication that they might be running out of money we might want to donate to them ourselves. At least through the fall of next year.

Ultimately, there will be extreme violence and riots. There is nothing like burning buildings and dead bodies to drive voters away from the Democrats.

Only if our republican brethern do not cave in and accept OWS as legitament...... But the story would be so much sweeter if part of the narrative was the refusal of OWS to pay for the proper permits

[Sectionhand]

The entity which is the official donation site for OWS and distributes the $$ to them is the Alliance for Global Justice , a communist front organization which has acted as an organ of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas for over thirty years . So far they've collected over $500,000.00 in donations for OWS in NYC .