Occupy That!

Globe and Mail

I've received plenty of feedback on my Occupy This! post, both informally and through comments on the post itself.

As I watched the news this morning, I also saw the Premier (carpetbagger that she is) say "I'm fed up" and "it's time to end this nonsense".

These homeless, unemployed, drug-addicted, social outcasts have worn out their welcome. They also have the misunderstanding that they can change the world and (mostly because we told them) that getting an education is the key to upward mobility.

I have noticed, however, that these opinions all come from people who have already "made it".

So from someone who's "made it", here are two specific suggestions to the Occupy movement to really have an impact.

• Pick a multinational oil company and boycott that company. Make it cool not to do business with Shell, or Esso, or Chevron - in the USA I'd pick Exxon.
• Move your money out of one of the big banks in Canada, and move it to a local Credit Union. There's already an ap for that! 

With these two actions, if enough people did them, you'd have an irritating, perfectly legal way of impacting two of the largest, most corrupt, most influential sectors we have - energy and banking. Simple and easily understood.

Actually, in order to have an impact, it's the over 40 crowd that will have to do this. The "Occupiers" probably ride bikes and take transit, and they certainly have no money.