OWS Is A Failure Because The OWSers And Their Supporters Are Not Walking The Walk

Before I get into the meat of this article I will ask and answer a question.

Question: What are the primary objectives of the so-called Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement?

Answer: The primary objectives are (1) Bringing an end to the widening financial gap between the poor and the wealthy. (2) Stopping “corporate greed” by getting large corporations to do such things as become more “customer friendly,” release large portions of the billions-of-dollars they are hoarding for the purpose of investing that money into the provision of more jobs for Americans, and contribute large sums of money to education and helping the poor. (3) Ridding government of widespread corruption and wiping out the high degrees of influence that lobbyists have on politicians. (4) Generating measures that will dramatically lower the nation’s high rates of unemployment and poverty.

Well, the movement has been underway ever since September 17, 2011, and there are not even any miniscule signs that it is on the road to achieving its objectives. Many of the poor are still getting poorer and many of the wealthy are still getting wealthier. The huge corporations are still carrying on business as usual and doing such things as “down-sizing” instead of hiring more employees, shipping “American jobs” overseas, increasing interest rates on credit-card debts and charging higher fees for various kinds of bank accounts, and driving up the costs of necessities, including gasoline, heating oil and food.

Also, government is not overhauling itself and the lobbyists are still running amok among the politicians. Additionally, the high rate of unemployment is frozen in place and the number of families living near and below the poverty level is on the upswing with no relief in sight.

In summation, even though OWS has been going full throttle for over two months, Wall Street, the big corporations, government, the politicians and the big-time lobbyists have not changed any of their ways -- and the “little people” are still mired in the mud and slime of the same swamp that they have been trapped in for generations.

Thus, not only is OWS a failure, it is a miserable failure. The endeavor is nothing more than the squandering of time, energies and other valuable resources. It has accomplished absolutely nothing so far as reigning in Wall Street, the big corporations, bloated government, corrupt politicians and “overly-influential lobbyists.” And it has not even generated a sense of hope and optimism among the unemployed, under-employed and those who are living in abject poverty.

At the same time, however, there is something very interesting taking place in America, so far as making the nation a “better place.” While OWS is failing miserably when it comes to bringing about significant positive changes for “The American People,” the nation’s Christian community is succeeding at bringing about numerous improvements within U.S. society.

As an example, Catholics, Mormons and other Christians have stationed thousands of “missionaries” in impoverished communities all over the country. And those workers are delivering messages of strength, hope and faith to vast numbers of down-and-out people. In addition, they are teaching skills to the unskilled; tutoring school children and encouraging them to complete their educations; organizing and leading self-help projects to clean up unkempt neighborhoods; drawing youngsters away from street gangs and other criminal elements; providing marriage and family counseling; discouraging males and females from making babies out of wedlock; helping recently-released ex-convicts to re-enter society as productive law-abiding citizens; feeding and providing groceries to the hungry and malnourished; getting the homeless off the streets and setting them up with places in which to live; Catholic charities are treating and caring for more HIV-AIDS sufferers than any other organization in the country, and it would take an entire book for me to list all of the other things the Christian community is doing to help America become a “better place.”

What it all comes down to is Christians are succeeding because they are out there walking the walk -- and the OWSers and their supporters are failing because they are NOT out there walking the walking the walk.