Point1:

Let’s say you want light in your kitchen. You’re in the bedroom,
so you flip the light switch. Hmmm…no light in the kitchen.
Let’s invite some people over to flip the bedroom light switch harder.
Hmmm, still no light in the kitchen. Maybe if we trash the bedroom,
that’ll make some light in the kitchen.
Darn, why ain’t this workin’?????

People change their behavior for only one reason…they think their personal overall
existence will be better if they change.
The 1% control life as we know it. They will not change their behavior
unless they think their PERSONAL overall existence will improve.

Occupy portland accomplished some things. They trashed some parks and spent
a lot of money on police. This cost the 99% money. It diverted scarce
resources from other programs that would have benefited the 99%.
Sorry, Charlie, we can’t open the homeless shelter because we spent the
money on police overtime.
They reduced the sales of downtown merchants.
Name ONE 1%er who was influenced to defect to the 99% AND had any ability
to change anything at all.

Occupy Wall Street is closer to the mark, but is still ineffective.
You gotta put the pain where the ability to change is. Change happens only when a
specific individual feels that change will benefit him DIRECTLY.
You think a single wall street banker felt his way of life was threatened? He cares about ONE thing: How big will his bonus
be this year.
You want
change, you’re probably outa luck. The 1% control everything. You have
zero ability to fix that. Best you can hope for is to elect politicians
who want change AND have some ability to effect it.
Bottom line is that you can’t afford to get elected unless you’re one
of the 1% and have support from a bunch of other 1%ers.

Point2:

My kid is a trouble maker. I want his behavior to change.
“You’re a sorry excuse for a human being.”
“I hate you”
“I wish you were never born.”
“You’ll never amount to anything.”
Darn, I just can’t get through to this kid.
Think I’ll smack him around a little.
Nope, that didn’t help.
Let’s report him to the cops and put him in jail.
Darn, I’ve tried everything on this kid…he just won’t
reform…

If you don’t like the current situation, you need to describe
what you DO want. You need a PLAN…a detailed comprehensive
plan that has a chance of resulting in what you want.
This plan has to be vetted by scholars and smart rational people
currently involved in industry/government.
And 51% of the voting populace has to agree on that plan
when they express their desires at the polls.

A further complication for an economic plan is that it has
to work worldwide. You just can’t just create jobs in the
USA by eliminating imports. You can’t fix a worldwide problem
unilaterally. And greed prevents worldwide consensus.

One of the biggest defects in a two-party political system is
that it’s a two-party system. A balance of opposing forces
results in INACTION…or at least compromised action that
produces as much harm as good. Most don’t have a plan,
but they sure know that they don’t like the other guy’s plan.
Our current form of government has many of the bad characteristics
of a dictatorship without the the advantage of unified
vision and control.

You need an organized movement. The Tea Party was an attempt at that.
ORGANIZE into a single movement. Opposing factions won’t fix it.
Aggregations in a public part won’t fix it.

Point 3:

The driving force for every living thing is self-preservation aka GREED
aka instant gratification.
Been that way for billions of years.
It AIN’T GONNA CHANGE!!!
The ONLY course of action is to exploit that greed.
You must find a way to harness the forces of nature to achieve your goals.
Standing in the street and singing kumbaya ain’t gonna help nobody.

The world economy is busted. And it’s busted because of decades of
greed. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
We’ve got too many people.
We’re depleting the world’s resources at an unsustainable rate.
And it’s rapidly increasing. Huge populations are just starting
to experience the industrial revolution.

For decades, do-gooders in the USA have worked to raise the
standard of living worldwide. If only someone had done the math,
they’d have realized that this happens by dragging the US standard
of living DOWN.

Anybody stopped to think that, in the eyes of the world, WE
are the 1%. The world would be better off if we disassembled
the USA and spread the wealth around. And they sure have the
votes (and the nukes) to do it. Thank your lucky stars that you live in the
greatest country in the world and “they” don’t get to vote.

The 1% get richer by exporting jobs and importing cheap labor.

What’s the easiest way to fix a 10% unemployment problem???
Easy, reduce the population 10%.

Bottom Line:
It’s a complex problem that won’t be fixed by trashing a public park.
Somebody needs to come up with a viable PLAN.

I’m thankful that I had the good fortune to live through the
greatest period of prosperity that the wold will ever know.
Hopefully, I’ll be dead by the time it all goes to hell.

And prey tell what is your agenda if its not to protect the troublemakers (i.e. anarchists? junkies?) and homeless in society.

I am very suspect of anyone in a movement who would not consider the most marginalised in our communities before anyone else.

Otherwise it is doomed to fail.

These so called ‘troublemakers and homeless’ are your natural allies.

It be your way soon the way the banana republic of America is crumbling.

Careful what you wish for.