Nine million more reasons the Occupy protests are nothing like the Tea Party

Since mid-September, the "Occupy Wall Street" protests have dragged on, and the Democrat-media complex continues to insist the movement is just like the Tea Party.

But a post at Verum Serum notes the cost to American taxpayers so far:

• Occupy Asheville – $170,000
• Occupy Atlanta – $451,691
• Occupy Austin – $78,000
• Occupy Boston – $150,000
• Occupy Charlotte – $1,700 per day
• Occupy Denver $365,000
• Occupy LA – $45,000 plus estimated $400,000 to repair the lawn
• Occupy Minneapolis – $200,000
• Occupy New York – $3,400,000
• Occupy Oakland – $2,000,000 for police overtime alone
• Occupy Philadelphia – $500,000
• Occupy Phoenix – $200,000
• Occupy Portland – $208, 796
• Occupy Raleigh – $51, 000
• Occupy Sacramento – $300,000
• Occupy San Diego – $49,000
• Occupy San Francisco – $100,000
• Occupy Seattle – $426,000

The total: $9,111,487.

Verum Serum notes some of these costs have not been updated in over a week, and are certain to go up as the protests drag on.

These costs, however, do not include the $4 million of lost revenue that resulted from the 12-hour shutdown of Oakland's port by Occupy protesters and their union allies.

Nor does it include the $10 million worth of damage done in an arson fire allegedly set by an Occupy Fort Collins protester on October 24.

These costs also do not include the human cost of the protest, as incidents of physical and sexual assault continue to grow.  The situation has gotten so bad in New York's Zuccotti Park, protesters now need rape shelters.

Thanks to the antics of Occupy protesters, businesses have also suffered.

The New York Post reports:

They want to change the economy, and now they have -- by putting people out of work!

Heartbroken Shamil Cepeda was one of 21 employees of a once-thriving cafe and catering business who just got fired because the weeks-long Occupy Wall Street protest chased away too many customers.

“I support their freedom of speech but the whole thing is hypocritical if it makes people lose their jobs,” a tearful Cepeda, 23, told The Post yesterday.

“Isn’t that the whole point of the protest?” fumed Cepeda, 23, who had worked at the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall St. since it opened in June.

Nevertheless, the sycophantic media continues to portray the protests as being just like the Tea Party.

Worse yet, the Democrat-media complex refuses to report on the scope of the violence taking place at these protests while casting false allegations against the Tea Party.  A post at the conservative blog Hot Air notes:

This can’t be repeated enough: With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history. Nothing compares, because nothing else involves this much distortion on both ends of the coverage. It’s not just that most press outlets (like the protesters themselves) look the other way at depravity happening inside Obamaville, it’s that for years they treated the tea-party movement as some sort of feral mob that was forever on the brink of rampaging through the streets — like, say, Occupy Oakland just did. If you missed it when I posted it last week, go watch the ad the DNC ran in August 2009 when tea partiers first started showing up to town halls on ObamaCare. That set the tone. We began the year with tea-party pols being smeared as killers over a shooting they had nothing to do with and we end it with actual rapes being shrugged off by the press because they’re bad PR for a movement they support. Disgrace.

It cannot be emphasized enough:  These protests, supported and endorsed by the Administration, Democratic leaders, Communists, Nazis and Islamists, have nothing in common with the Tea Party.