Occupy something

It's May 1 and I've heard on television, radio, and Internet news sources that the Occupy people are trying to stage some sort of "99%" protests. Here's some quotes from the Wall Street Journal's web site:

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• "The organizers see Tuesday's events as the opening of a new era for the anti-corporate movement" {apparently we should all have government jobs and stop working for corporations, because they prefer to make money, not print it.}
• "But organizers on Friday acknowledged the morning rains as an early obstacle." {These people must really believe in their cause, unless it rains. No cause is worth getting wet}
• "'We announce when pickets are leaving, when they're successful, when we need more people,' Mr. Egberts said." {So... apparently the protesters have no real connection to whomever they are picketing. They just really enjoy a good picket line.}
• "The picket signs included slogans like 'Education is a right not a commodity' and 'Expand minds not NYU's campus.'" {Nobody appreciates something they get for free, let's keep education as something you have to earn, not a right. And while we're at it, let's give the protesters this second one. Quit expanding campuses so we can learn in groups of 100 or more. I hate small classes.}

Let's try to keep our upside-down flag-flying to a minimum here. The article I quoted mentions protesting banks, universities, and broadcast corporations. Apparently all of the "organizers" just feel the need to believe in some sort of cause, and don't really care what that cause is. Let me make a few suggestions.

Maybe that good feeling you get when you've kidded yourself into believing that you've accomplished something could be replaced by the good feeling you get for helping people who need your help. Stop picketing and go feed some homeless people. Since you are picketing instead of working, chance are you'll need the same kind treatment some day. Instead of protesting a bank for foreclosing on people who bought houses too big for their paychecks, loan them the money to pay off their house. You paid $700 to fly from Hawaii to New York to join the protest, that money could have helped keep someone in their house for another month.