Does the people protesting Wall Street even know what they are protesting.

I'd have to say that no, they don't know what they are protesting. THey are told to go there and do that and they do. If htey want to protest something... go to 1600 Pennsylvania ave and protest...that's where it all happens. Wall street isn't going to do anything for them. I've watched interviews of people and they talk and don't have a clue what they are saying and just look at them...even their signs don't make any sense. I think they are just doing it to have something to do while unemployed. I think people are so uneducated in politics and things like that that that they just follow orders. I mean look at the Jimmy HOffa ordeal...biggest union leader in american history...wasn't democrate or republican...yet the democratic unions all supported him, then when the democrate president JFK told his democrate brother Robert Kennedy to prosecute him... he did and Hoffa went to jail. THen a Republican president names Richard Millhouse Nixon pardoned him. Yet Unions still vote democrate...my husband is in a construction union...and has never worked a day while a democrate was president...only while a Rep is president...so things aren't as they are told.. and people just do what they are told. That's politics for ya!

People are protesting "just 'cause" and they don't even know why they're doing it. They should stop wasting their time and do something useful with themselves, like try to get real jobs.

They should but Wall Street to me was the ones that got it way our of proportion on houses and every thing then the bottom dropped out for they over did it they made thierselves crash and took alot of people with them

They are protesting the greed and corruption that corporations get away with. The reason you don't know what they are protesting is because the media won't give fair air time - instead they are spinning things. See my discussion for the best unedited coverage as well as what they are protesting. You would be in favour of it if you are done with the people with the most money setting policies.

I say, old chap, have you considered some sort of stunningly subtle move to try to figure them out such as, oh I don't know, reading their web page?

The people protesting these things have just been persuaded by heavy propaganda. In the war between socialism and capitalism both sides don't want you to know certain things and will tell you otherwise. The people protesting must be very dedicated to their cause or else they wouldn't stand out their all day protesting. If they really new the truth and what would happen if we got rid of wall street and corporations, they would not be happy. Socialism is a terrible system and has shown to be unsuccessful in all foreign countries. Greece went bankrupt. In Italy, it is rare to see a baby. Happiness is declining in these socialist countries and along with it the population is declining. Most college kids and young people are going to support things like socialism because that's just what their understanding level is at. When they mature and are adults, they most likely will appreciate all their liberties and be in favor of capitalism. So yes, they do not know the full truth, and have been persuaded by the liberals of the government looking to turn the United States of America into a declining country propaganda slaves.

Yeah. I read their web page. I've listened to countless interviews of the people actually there when asked why there are there. To me, it seems like every disgruntled, entitled person around has decided that it's time to protest about something. Some want straight-up communism. Some want peace and love and a time machine to take them back a few decades. Others want to do anything but actually work for a living. It's nothing but a put-on cluster of entitled schmoes who feel as if they should have more than what they have. They're proud of themselves. Many liken their plight to those of Middle Easterners. I guess that's the difference in cultures. Because these guys feel as if being alive should entitle them to an equal share of wealth, they feel as if they've been persecuted and starved out and have had their freedoms taken away simply because no one handed them a living. I think the worst thing that ever happened to most of these folks was their parents deciding to stop picking up the tab. I don't begrudge the guys for getting out there and doing what they do. Yeah, it's BS that they're interrupting working people by blocking bridges and all that. But these are the same people, save a very limited few, who sit around on their butts all day anyway. So at least they're getting some exercise! I get that they're upset. In between timeouts and reflection periods growing up, they were told that they were perfect and worthy of so much. None of them realized that you actually have to compete in the world. And once they found that out, they were pissed off. Like most things leftist, it starts out small and weak, and then the mob inevitably comes in and turns it into something false and hateful and ends up setting the cause back another 100 years.