The Economic Strain of the Occupy Movement

There are reports in the media every day about the strain local governments are feeling from lack of funds. They tell us they are lacking the money to hire cops, pay teachers, put on firemen and the usual laundry list they use to squeeze more money from taxpayers.

Yet, here we are listening to this same media herald the greatness of a bunch of protestors who are requiring cities to pay millions in overtime pay for cops, sanitation crews and countless other hidden expenses built into protecting, cleaning up after and containing the Occupy Wall Street people. As they chant their speeches into their bullhorns to be repeated by their echo-minded comrades, they are chewing up money that could be spent to send kids to school, put cops somewhere where they are needed and respond to emergencies.

Their concern is not for kids or cops, it’s for building a massive central government with a ‘benevolent dictator’ – whatever that is – to oversee this massive government monster they want created. In other words, they’re looking for a nanny and don’t know how to do it except to have the government make the rest of us provide it for them.

The mainstream media and everyone from President Obama down to the local city councils are behind these people and what they are trying to achieve. The same people telling us they want to raise our taxes. The translation of that is that no matter how much it costs, these kids are part of the Democrat re-election campaign just like the mainstream media. They have all bought into the nanny approach. The kids want it because they want their lives easier and the politicians because it gives them power over the rest of us. They all have one intention – install a powerful central government that forces all of us to do what they want us to do and do it at our expense.