Michelle Malkin posted a very enlightening column yesterday: Costs of the Occupiers. At a time when municipalities across the country are struggling just to stay afloat, the cities “occupied” by the anarchists are facing additional expenditures, mostly for extra police presence.
Topping the list of course is NYC – with taxpayers footing a $3.2 million bill – so far. Boston expects to spend $2 million if protests there continue until the end of the month. Every city that these protesters descend upon is looking at overtime pay for law enforcement.
 
[And Vice Pres. Biden had the audacity to suggest on Wednesday, that the rape and murder rates will rise if we don’t pass Obama’s jobs bill. 😯 Because as usual, per Leftist protocol, the first place to cut is always in law enforcement/public safety. Guess the OWS-associated outlay is no big deal.]
 
The cities’ costs don’t take into effect the lost revenues and massive inconvenience experienced by the private sector; the individual entrepreneurs located near the protests. Sean Hannity spoke with an NYC restaurant owner on his radio show this afternoon. Between the stink, the hundreds of requests to use her restrooms, the delivery trucks that won’t deliver, and the regular customers that are too nervous to patronize the place, she was practically pulling her hair out in frustration.
 
Who’s “greedy” again? Not to mention completely selfish and irresponsible.
 
No cause is worth the economic havoc these hoodlums are wreaking on their fellow Americans, or the corrosive effect they’re having on the civil society.
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 As a study in contrast, here’s a cop keeping a sharp eye on the 750,000-strong crowd at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally (Aug. 2010) on the National Mall:
 
 
Don’t think D.C. had to pay much overtime that day.