DC bills Feds for Occupy costs
According to the Washington Times, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has billed the National Park Service for the costs the District has incurred because of the Occupy DC hippies;
“Our citizens cannot be expected to pay for the consequences of a decision in which they have no say,” Mr. Gray said in the letter.
While many cities across the globe have seen protesters take to the streets, the Occupy groups have camped on federally controlled land since October and racked up city costs in overtime, public sanitation and park and street maintenance and cleaning, Mr. Gray said in his letter to Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.
“In neither case was the District Government consulted on the legality or appropriateness of long-term protestors inhabiting these respective locations,” the mayor said.
The mayor has a point. If the NPS hadn’t been so willing to allow these hippie fucks to live in the national parks over the last few months as bases to launch their mishavior like blocking traffic and invading private spaces and encouraging bad behavior that needed to be policed and cleaned up afterwards, it probably wouldn’t have lasted this long.
And that $1.6 million could have been spent for the truly needy instead of the intentionally itinerant.
Category: I hate hippies, Occupy
Maybe they can get the OWS hippies in New York to fork it over from the $750K they pulled in donations–minus the $700/night their accountant and other “leaders” were blowing by staying at the W a couple blocks away from Zuccotti Park.
Sure they could, Sparky, but that would not be politically advantageous. It’s better that we–the taxpayers–pay the bill. Of course, for you and the rest of us, there’s an entrance fee for National Parks. They’ll turn you around at the gate or toss you and grandma out if you should make it past that point.
Wrong party. The National Forest Service is financed by taxpayers, you and me. Occupy must have an entity holding the money they have collected, and that entity should also be billed, also for the full amount.
Here’s how you get your money: Arrest everyone at OWS, then fine them the cost of the clean-up and OT for cops. Problem solved.
I think they should occupy Camp David. Obama likes the slobs. True, he rarely goes there, but I think it would be a nice gesture if he welcomed the occupiers to his mountain lair.