I would actually argue that none of those are just "shifting around digital points" and only looks that way to people who don't look deeply into what they are.

For example  short selling essentially is a bit of insurance and a way for mutal funds and hedgefunds to recoup money they may lose on stocks they own by loaning it to lenders.

Really, it doesn't actually create any value at all... and in general kinda helps most of the time because Wall-street tends to be very optimistic.  Short Sellers can't work if there aren't buyers willing to pay that price anyway.

Credit Default swaps are also more or less an insurance policy.

 Furthermore, all these actions make stocks more attractive to own.  Which makes venture capitalists go after new IPO's harder... because it's all the more valuable to be on the ground floor.

Not working at all!!!

If anything it reinforces a negative stereotype of protesters.

A friend of mine, who lives close to one of the occupy site, was invited to a community meeting to discuss the impacts of the protests. As soon as the protesters found out about the meeting, they became extremely aggressive, even to the point of attacking the owner of the restaurant they were meeting.

Yeah, because taking the employment to population ration from 56% yo 62% was so bad ... It would be so bad to have a president enact policies like that after the population to employment ration has fallen from above 62% to below 58% over the past 3 years.

Obama may had to take charge while the house was on fire, but he has not done much to douse the flames.

He however then takes pride saying, at least the walls are still standing.

I'd say he's helped the fire grow.  Except now he can point at the house next door (europe) and say, well at least our house isn't nuked like that one.

Funny thing is a lot of those protesters probably still maintain business with banks and work for corporations. If you Americans want to successfully protest:

1. Cancel your bank accounts
2. Sell your common stocks, withdraw RRSPs, and all other investments.
3. Don't work for anyone with links to a corporation
4. File for bankruptcy if you have debt.

If millions of people did this, THEN the corporations in the US would be downright terrified.

No one has the balls to do something like that. Can't I just scream at police and not allow working people to work?

So who does create jobs and wealth then? Its certainly not the government. Government kills more jobs than it creates. 

By balls, you mean courage. Of course it takes courage to have an effective protest. The only way to effectively weaken someone who thrives off of the money they are getting from you and millions of others, is if those millions of others stop giving them money, and that starts with you.

That is about the worst idea I have ever heard ... While transferring your bank account to a credit union or a small bank can be an effective protest against a large bank, the rest of your suggestions are moronic.

Corporatism is a problem where gigantic corporations buy influence from politicians to gain favour with a government which has so much power that its decisions can make these corporations billions of dollars. The core problem is the government has so much power and leeway to make decisions which favour a corporation (or industry) at the expense of the general public. With that said, you’re not even attempting to target corporations that have behaved poorly and bought influence, and your untargeted and poorly thought out action will likely result in far more honourable and well run businesses struggling than large corporations; and your actions will likely have significant negative effects on countless individuals, in particular young people looking for jobs (as large corporations shift their workforce to countries where people actually want to work) and the elderly (who’s fixed income is heavily dependant on the investments you destroyed).

Rather than doing this, why don't you do something completely radical and research which companies are behaving well and which are behaving poorly and publish this information in an attept to sway people with a similar worldview to support the good companies? If you convince enough people to buy these products and services, and to invest in these stocks, you will have created an incentive for companies to act in the way you want them to ...

If you combine that with a massive reduction in the power of the government, and force the government to treat all corporations under the same rules (with no special treatment for any corporation or industry) you would likely see a massive change in how business is done.