Dear OCCUPY WALL STREET et al:

What if you ABANDONED WALL STREET?

Face it. This ain't working. You're just feeding "the man" at this point;

1. The media has descended upon you and is making more money off of covering you.
2. You have become your own future Superfund ecological hazardous waste site !
3. You have no more cohesive voice then the multiple talking heads on the networks.
4. Even though you count yourselves as THE NINETY NINE PERCENT, come on! We can count!!! Your numbers don't show it!
5. You're so Chock full o'Nuts the other 98.98%  of us don't want anything to do with you (but we love watching you in between episodes of the Jersey Shore and Real Housewives!) .

So, here's a plan for you. ABANDON WALL STREET! Remember that old Anti-war slogan "WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR AND NOBODY CAME?"? 

Put your bongo drums down and think about it.  Everyone goes home, but still carry on the fight.

Here's how:

PROTEST WITH YOUR POCKETBOOK! This doesn't just mean banking locally (so your money gets invested locally) but buying locally as well. Yeah, we all embrace the World Wide Web, and love shopping on Amazon and eBay -- then we wonder where our local stores have gone with their local jobs!!!! Your local tax base wonders what happened as well!

One young man has an idea that will also hit the big guys:

*Note: the wood shims he mentions just get broken in the mail and then don't get sent (therefore aren't paid for). The bonus of doing this is that it peripherally supports the U.S. Post Office and the people who have those jobs.

If there is a message behind the movement (no clear answers, just a message apparently) it's that you're mad and you're not going to take it anymore. There are other ways to get that message across without disrupting the economies of other working people - i.e. the businesses in the area where you are currently making it very difficult to conduct any real business.

Much like Return-to-Sender Mail boy, you can also:

• Call your bank and do all you can to speak to a person. This normally involves going through the hassle of the phone-system [hitting "0" often does the trick to reach an operator]
• Ask questions about your account balance, etc.
• Make small talk - remember - they're paying for that time.
• When the conversation is about ended, and they ask if there is anything else they can help you with, tell them what you really want -- an end to banking fees, the CEO in jail, and someone to come over and cut your lawn.
• Keep a bank account and make withdrawals & deposits in person (they love it when you come in!)
• Bring in your loose change.
• Ask to speak to a manager.
• See above - remember to go when they're really busy!  Great if you're unemployed and have time on your hands!
• If it looks like they don't have enough tellers on the floor - ask if they're hiring!
• The key here is to BE POLITE. Getting yourself thrown out for being rude doesn't win any points. (Make sure to drink plenty of chamomile tea before going in, you want to remain calm!).
• Even better! - buy stock in a bank then show up at stockholder meetings (as the 99%, surely there's the numbers to buy up some stock!) 
• Complain that you think the bank is making too much profit.
• Move to make board elections American Idol style.
• Nominate your high school algebra teacher to be on the board (apparently they are having problems with some basic math).
• Demand that if they are going to foreclose on widows and orphans, that they must send a guy with a handlebar moustache and a top hat to set the scene properly. 

As you can see, there are many ways to rage against the machine other than crapping up our public places.  Maybe, the "Arab Spring" movement had a nice ring to it, but an "American Fall" really, really doesn't sound too good now, does it?