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Sanity -> Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 6:50:05 PM)
It would be nice if they could carry their own weight: quote: Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts To Offset Millions In Occupy LA Costs ...Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require an estimated $400,000. The police action to clear out the encampment on Nov. 30 cost more than $700,000. Additional expenses are attributed to hauling away debris from the camp, and cleaning up graffiti that defaced City Hall marble walls and trees. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/21/mayor-calls-for-budget-cuts-to-offset-millions-in-occupy-la-costs/ Apparently the gimme gimme gimme crowd thinks everyone owes them though Nice bunch of folks (Not)

MasterSlaveLA -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 7:21:10 PM)
The OWS dipshits are not only idiots ---> but hypocrites. [8\|]

farglebargle -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 8:15:16 PM)
I wonder how come none of the people working for the bond rating companies who lied about the ratings of the securitized mortgages aren't going to prison for the rest of their lives?

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 8:15:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MasterSlaveLA The OWS dipshits are not only idiots ---> but hypocrites. [8\|] "All those dayglo freaks that used to paint their face Theyve joined the human race Some things never change". Even most of the OWSers will grow up someday. Speaking of which, where is our resident over the hill hippie, Stern?

MasterSlaveLA -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 8:41:35 PM)
I'll worry about them after Barney Frank and the criminals in charge of Fannie/Freddie (who received millions) go to jail.

Owner59 -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 8:46:49 PM)
Care to estimate the trillions lost in tax revenue to state and local governments resulting from you neo-cons ruining our economy? We can tie that directly to republicans. Let`s go after them and get our money back.

tweakabelle -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 9:09:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: farglebargle I wonder how come none of the people working for the bond rating companies who lied about the ratings of the securitized mortgages aren't going to prison for the rest of their lives? While we are it, why does any one take the ratings agencies seriously any more? We don't need any more proof of their stratospheric levels of incompetence do we? IF there's a positive in the Eurozone crisis, it might be that neither the French nor the Germans paid any attention to rating agency threats to downgrade their banks if they didn't do what the agencies demanded. I hope the rest of the world follows the example set by the French and Germans.

MrRodgers -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 9:25:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity It would be nice if they could carry their own weight: quote: Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts To Offset Millions In Occupy LA Costs ...Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require an estimated $400,000. The police action to clear out the encampment on Nov. 30 cost more than $700,000. Additional expenses are attributed to hauling away debris from the camp, and cleaning up graffiti that defaced City Hall marble walls and trees. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/21/mayor-calls-for-budget-cuts-to-offset-millions-in-occupy-la-costs/ Apparently the gimme gimme gimme crowd thinks everyone owes them though Nice bunch of folks (Not) Hey quick learners. All they had to do was watch the wall street bankers and do just as they do...slough it off on govt. Oh yea, the OWS are due their bonuses too right. Hey, it's the 'obligation' of a bankrupt govt. to bonus bankrupt bankers [sic] then it is the same obligation to bonus those who likely didn't lose a dime...of somebody else's money. I want my bonus.

tazzygirl -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 9:47:28 PM)
Ya know, the Tea Party left South Florida owing a tab of 6000 dollars.... 6000 they promised to pay. We're not sure what's more laughable -- the fact that the South Florida Tea Party can't keep up on its bills for a Donald Trump rally they held in Boca Raton, or the fact that they held a rally for The Donald to begin with. The city has sent invoices for the $6,145 the Tea Party owes for barricades set up and police security, but they haven't been paid since the April rally. Even better, the Tea Party would stick Boca Raton with the bill if they don't pay it -- so those real "fiscal conservatives" would be causing government spending. Whoops. Just sayin....

tweakabelle -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 10:02:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl We're not sure what's more laughable -- the fact that the South Florida Tea Party can't keep up on its bills for a Donald Trump rally they held in Boca Raton, or the fact that they held a rally for The Donald to begin with. The city has sent invoices for the $6,145 the Tea Party owes for barricades set up and police security, but they haven't been paid since the April rally. I wonder if the bill for $6,145 included an itemised entry for hairspray? You know, to hold a Very Famous Combover in place during those gusty periods so common in Boca Raton? An essential consideration as it comprises the Trump's most electable asset. If Obama had a sense of humour, he'd place the Trump's mop (and combover) under the protection of a National Conservation Heritage Order. [:D]

lovenhate -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 10:20:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MasterSlaveLA The OWS dipshits are not only idiots ---> but hypocrites. [8\|] So...if they're unemployed they're lazy and don't want to work, but if they get jobs they're hypocrites? Can't win, huh? I read the article, it says this OWS protester is going to work as an analyst. So the question is, will her employers allow her to do honest ratings? Will she be allowed to put a "sell" rating on a company, regardless of what other business the brokerage firm might have with that company? If so, then good for her and best of luck in her new job. If they pressure her to be dishonest, she is going to have to quit, or yes, be a hypocrite, since a major OWS complaint is the corruption and lying in the finance industry. I second the "fuck the ratings agencies" comment, it was thanks to those assholes rating subprime crap as AAA that the housing crisis blew up. As for police bills, it's the city's decision to send in a ton of cops to inflict violence on peaceful protesters when they could be out responding to real crimes.

Termyn8or -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 10:26:05 PM)
quote: We don't need any more proof of their stratospheric levels of incompetence do we? I got proof positive, the US economy not toppling three months/years ago. They are schills for mortgages on pieces of paper, nothing more now. T^T

MasterSlaveLA -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/21/2011 11:30:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: lovenhate Soooo... if they go work for the VERY PEOPLE/COMPANIES that THEY are bitching about, ahem... that makes them fucking HYPOCRITES!!! [8\|]

farglebargle -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 4:17:54 AM)
If you think that's the point of #OWS, then you haven't been paying attention. Here's a handy example. Do you know how "your legislator" has an intern answer the phone whey you call their office, but will drop everything and take the CEO of Best Buy's call 24 hours a day? That's the problem. Why doesn't "your legislator" take your calls personally, too?

DaddySatyr -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 4:52:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tweakabelle I hope the rest of the world follows the example set by the French and Germans. But, to do that, we'd have to try to convince someone else to take over the world and commit mass genocide while we sit and sip wine and eat cheese!

Lucylastic -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 10:12:40 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: lovenhate As for police bills, it's the city's decision to send in a ton of cops to inflict violence on peaceful protesters when they could be out responding to real crimes. Quite simply This.

Lucylastic -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 12:27:24 PM)
VANCOUVER - Occupy Vancouver protesters say they doled out almost as much in services as the city says it spent on dealing with the five-week encampment. Earlier this week, the city's manager issued a report saying the protest cost taxpayers almost $1 million, but protesters say city officials chose to spend that much money by overreacting. Occupy spokeswoman Sarah Beuhler says the protest camp actually fed and cared for people the city or the province might otherwise have had to. She says the camp provided the equivalent of about $90,000 in sheltering costs and another $672,000 in primary medical care. The city says as of it spent $981,103, including $590,000 on police overtime to monitor the camp, more than half of it in the first week. City manager Penny Ballem said in the report that Vancouver's costs were in line with those incurred in other major cities.

Fellow -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 3:08:00 PM)
These high expenses are so sad story. I would advise the next OWS event organizers to set up their own volunteer police force and clean-up crews. It shouldn't be a big problem. The government spent about 1 billion dollars to protect a bunch of robber barons at 2010 Toronto G20 meeting. The cost was no problem then.

Lucylastic -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 3:09:17 PM)
The government spent about 1 billion dollars to protect a bunch of robber barons at 2010 Toronto G20 meeting. The cost was no problem then. Well said

tazzygirl -> RE: Remember the Own Wall Street rioters? (12/22/2011 3:29:44 PM)
The official price tag for security at last year's G20 summit in Pittsburgh was listed at $18 million US, according to municipal and U.S. federal officials. The last victory parade drew a quarter-million people into the Golden Triangle and was a public safety nightmare, sources said. The celebration was free to the public, but it cost the city $45,000 for security and cleanup. Crowd control was also challenging. Some fans created safety concerns by running up to the parade vehicles carrying Steelers players and coaches PITTSBURGH -- City officials said the Penguins Stanley Cup victory parade cost about $72,000.

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