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In the realm of ironic unintended consequences, this one takes the cake. Bloomberg reports that Occupy Wall Street protesters are stifling some local businesses in Manhattan’s Financial District, to the point that shops and eateries might have to close their doors. These are small businesses not owned by the corporate giants, mind you.
From the story:
Occupy Wall Street protests assailing income inequality, joblessness and big banks may have some unintended consequences. They’re hurting nearby merchants as police barricades deter shoppers.
“If this doesn’t stop soon I will be out business,” said Marc Epstein, 53, president of Milk Street Cafe on Wall Street, less than a block from the New York Stock Exchange.
Sales have dropped about 20 percent since the protests began last month and the 103 jobs created by the cafe’s opening in June are now at risk, said Epstein, who’s not alone. Caroline Anderson, general manager of Boutique Tourbillon, a Wall Street jewelry store, said customer traffic is down about 20 percent, and Vincent Alessi, a managing partner at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse on Broad Street, said his lunch business has been cut in half.
The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York with about 1,000 people on Sept. 17 has spread to cities on four continents as demonstrators from London to Rome and Chicago to Sydney have pitched tents in public spaces. Police, whose displays of force also may be hurting business as they block access to tourist destinations, have arrested hundreds.
“These protesters don’t understand the consequences of their actions,” Epstein said. “Who’s going to create the jobs they’re banging their drums for?”
Who indeed.
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Real American| 10.25.11 @ 11:40AM
the government will create the jobs, of course! everyone can be their own diversity coordinator!
LC JB | 10.25.11 @ 11:44AM
This is typical of ALL leftist 'big ideas'. They start 'peaceful' protests and within days criminal activity is rampant. What do they expect? Their ideology is all over the place, but the description of anarchist is probably a good fit. They're seeing the nirvana that anarchy creates. People are hurt physically, emotionally and financially, but they could care less, rose-colored glasses always do that. The Ends justify ANY Means. Idiocy on parade at OWS.
Al Adab| 10.25.11 @ 1:19PM
In 1972 I walked from the GOP convention hall back to my hotel through the streets of Miami littered with broken glass from hotel windows and the occassional burnt out car. A cloud of tear gas hung over the streets burning the eyes of us all. A waitress in one of the restaurants, a Cuban refugee, told me, "It is just like when Castro came."
The OWS events are simply a dress rehersal for action at the conventions next summer. They hope to disrupt those conventions and perhaps the elections as well. In their lust to recreate the "glory days" of 1969- 73 they fail to remember that nothing about those days was admirable and nothing was worth emulating. Sadly, we do not have a Nixon who, for all his faults, managed to steer our nation through the greatest political crisis since the Civil war.
JustJim| 10.25.11 @ 5:36PM
These protesters are willfully blind to any of the consequences caused by their actions. They take no responsibility for the filth, crime, and destruction of natural environment that occurs at their camp sites and no responsibility for the absolute waste of financial resources that they are costing the communities that they have invaded and occupied. They have no recognition or even a basic self awareness that every dollar that local governments spend in policing and cleaning up after their mess is a dollar that is no longer available for the causes that they supposedly believe in.
This is nothing more than spoiled brat behavior at its worst and hopefully the adults in this country will see this mob for the mindless parasites that they are.