Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts To Offset Millions In Occupy LA Costs
December 21, 2011 1:10 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The City of Los Angeles reportedly faces millions of dollars in expenses brought about by the Occupy LA movement.
City agencies have been ordered to calculate what was spent on the Occupy LA protests.
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.
The lawn at Los Angeles City Hall is 2/3 of an acre. The alleged $400,000 to repair it is at the rate of $600,000 per acre.
I think this is someone's idea of how to make those look bad who are concerned about the widening gap between rich and poor, the concentration of wealth and power, the dominate influence of money in politics, the systematic shift in money to Wall Street and bankers, the accelerating squeezing out of the middle class, and the hopelessness in combating it.
If not, give me the contract to repair the lawn. I'll do it for $389,900.
