My Challenge To Occupy Wall Street

Hey I get it. Occupy Wall Street I heard your message loud and clear.  In fact I am still hearing it everyday what, its been about two long months now.  In many ways I support your efforts and I praise your vision for the future.  However the sad reality is that I live and work in New York City and outside of news programs using you to build their ratings, I am not actually feeling your impact locally where it counts.

So my question is at the end of the day how effective are you being really?  What are you actually accomplishing to bring about true change in the global economic market?  Are you really making an impact where it counts?  Are you as a group nationwide and globally actually causing change in current economic policies within both  financial organizations and government? Or are you nothing more than disorganized social misfits whose only purpose is to occupy jail cells, burn up public resources and fill court dockets.

What is the grand plan here?  How will you enact actually change? What is your time line? And what are the immediate steps that can be taken to change the lack of effectiveness that has been showcased over the pass couple of months.  Sure you manage to piss off a few bankers, get your faces and often ridiculous agendas splashed on tv and thus far have gotten your heads bashed and teeth kicked in by cops who seem more than happy to do so. 

Now don’t get pissed just yet, I promise it gets better so gather your tissues and read on because the truth can be painful. However once you face reality and accept your short comings then regroup and come up with an effective plan, the tears do go away.

So here we go maybe some suggestions!  Get rid of the slackers who really don’t give a damn about any actual cause until you can properly educate them, all they do is make the cops happy and provided them with a fun way to work off the donuts.  It is time to face it you are making some cop really happy because instead of having to chase down some drug dealing punk who just might kick their asses or worse, they get to dress up in sexy helmets and legally stick a night stick up someone’s ass. Plus come on you actually helping the criminal element within the community who never worked or care to work in the first place.  See here’s a little secret you might not know, Police departments have been stretched to the limit in recent years because of ridiculous cutbacks and budgets short falls.  What  that means is that some neighborhoods that were short on cops to begin with have even less in the pass couple months patrol and protect innocent citizens.  

I had the opportunity to visit a police precinct in Brooklyn, NY on Thursday night this pass week, and guess what?  People were actually being told that they were no cops available to assist them at the moment, no one to call, short of major emergencies.  One gentleman went to a friend’s apartment and saw blood on the door, he called 911 but cops didn’t show up, so he took it upon himself to walk to the precinct to express concern for his friend’s well being.  The officer at the desk told him they was no one available to call, his best bet would be to go back to the block wait until he sees passing cops to stop and  ask them to accompany him to check on his friend.  Can you believe that crap?

If I got this correct, my understanding is that you wanted to bring about positive change.  To  ensure that there is financial stability now and in the future.  In essence Occupy Wall Street want  jobs now and in the future.  Great that is absolutely wonderful.  However let us face a bit of reality here, the job market as we knew it is for ever changed.  With the advancement of technology alone thousands of jobs have been eliminate and those jobs just not coming back.  After all why pay individual thousands upon thousands of dollars a year to do something a machine can do at a fraction of the cost.  In the book The Four Day Work Week by Tim Ferris he there is something that said “the factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog.  The man will be there to make sure the machines are doing what they are suppose to do and the dog will be there to make sure the man is doing what he is suppose to be doing.”

Hate to actually say it but I wonder how much the dog is being paid and is he getting direct deposit? Sorry couldn’t help myself there.  Yes I know there is nothing funny about the number of people who are out of work and will continue to loose their jobs.  My intent was never to make lite of that situation.  However I wanted to piss some readers off hoping that by God it would wake them up to the pointlessness of Occupy Wall Street’s current plan of action. 

Here is what  I see when I look at you Occupy.  And mind you I am  an individual who actually agree with the intended end goal.  However the methods and plans being used to accomplish said goal will never freaking work.  Open up your eyes and face some stone cold freaking reality.  The rich and powerful, the individuals who actually have their hands on the pulse of our global economic markets don’t give a damn about jobs being lost.  The only thing they care about when it is all said and done is the bottom line, people.  How can they produce the most profits with the least amount of expenses, and when it is all done and said the most costly resource companies have is human.  And if two or four jobs can be folded under one job description and it doesn’t effects the companies ability to generate profits then so be it. Stone Cold Reality. It Ain’t Changing? Unless!

Now with that said can any effort organized as Occupy Wall Street currently is, enact any kind of change?  Hell no.  Now for all of you out of control, just holding on to sanity, chomping at the bits to do something dumb, violence is never a step forward and it never will be.  The fact remain that they have bigger guns and more resources than you can ever hope to combat and if you go and piss the wrong people off, I hope you have a better plan that Saddam and Osama  because you are going to get your asses handed to you in a hand basket like it was thanksgiving.  So get any stupid ass ideas out of your head and use the brain God gave you, after all the most powerful weapon is uniting powerful ideas and finding the right individuals to successfully execute them.  

Occupy Wall Street your presence isn’t felt in my community, not in my local churches, not in my local community organizations, not on my block nor in my local shops or restaurants.  I don’t see you at local political events having your presence felt allowing voters to clearly understand your united agenda.  I don’t see you outside of schools talking to and educating young people and their parents about how these issues will directly effect them in years to come.  I don’t see you  with a plan on how to incorporate these young people into your message and putting them in the forefront.  

I do not see you organizing into effective groups locally to first build up firm well trained groups. Groups trained to cause peaceful but effective well  targeted  disruptions.  How do you get the attention of the wealthy?  You stop spending money at they places of business and  support local mom and pap stores.   Just a few ideas I found somewhere or the other on the internet so please don’t give me the credit.  Seriously, we are Americans when did we get away from the spirit of combining our efforts and doing for ourselves.  We see the signs, we see where things are going yet still you get together to talk about the problem which is fine or to get into shouting matches with people who are actually doing  something.  There are literally thousands of you out there, if you can organized this half ass effort that in all fairness has gotten you more than enough attention globally, then why can’t you get it together, create and build.  Build and compete against these greedy bastards who would have you believe that the way things are going will be somehow better for the economy in the long run. These greedy bastard who have the nerve to spend million on leisure while their employees live pay check to pay check and stress about whether or not they will have jobs in six months.

Occupy Wall Street stop listening to these news organization who would have you believe that you are actually accomplishing more than mayhem. Sure they will put your pretty messy faces on tv doing dumb stuff like running face first into  police boots,  just to see if your face can somehow make a dent.  Keep believing the hype and all I can do is affectionately refer to you as my crushed face dumb asses. My goodness if you are going to be on TV the least you can do is run in boot to boot, It’s becoming ridiculous now, I can just imagine some fat guy on the sixtieth floor sitting in his high back leather chair having one hell of a chuckle at your expense, with his friends in the corporate offices of these very same news organizations.  Did you somehow forget that the very same news organization spreading the wonderful news of your successes just happens to be owed by some of the same individual you are fighting against.  No not the fat cops that were standing on your faces on last night’s ABC Nightly News but the guys who actually owes ABC. Suspicious now ain’t it?