I think the underemployed figures are mostly coming from part time pensioners and disability workers. Give the protesters a block of land somewhere on the outskirts of town to have their commune. You can-not disrupt the lives of people for your own agenda. Since when has it been legal to camp in the main street. Law-breakers deserve what they get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8k4Q33BV1k Prof Michael Hudson speaks the truth about Occupy Wall St.

I like Professor Hudson, he's right,we can't call for piecemeal reform, you can't reform organised crime.I can never seem to get through to people the idea that the "Bankers" are nothing but Gangsters, that usury is a criminal occupation.
The problem is that most people, though connected to the internet at home have not taken the step toward making it their primary source of information.

Jay,when criminal banksters create from nothing the money to equal our toil,we become their debt slaves.That is the undeniable truth which most refuse to acknowledge.

(Ar)Jay,

When the banks start sending out heavies to pulverise the patellas of loan defaulters, you guys might have a little more success in convincing folk that they're no better than the Mob.

Of course, if you dislike the banks that much, there is always the simple option of closing all your bank accounts and sewing your life savings into an old mattress. But I'm betting that despite your hyperbole about criminal bankers, you both still have bank accounts.

Thank God most people still rely on their good old-fashioned formal education as their primary source of information - a lot of folk still manage to be quite thick after 13 years of school and few more of tertiary education. Imagine how much worse things could be if folk eschewed all that for the conjecture, fantasy, sophistry, bunk and delusions which make up so much of the 'information' on the interweb.

Rizla,
Sorry for you, you can no longer get away with insinuating that people who eschew mainstream media and education are dumb or crazy, it just makes you look like some Beadle shouting "Heretic!" every time a contrary opinion is expressed in a public discussion.
It's not just banks who screw the "little guy", in a sense that's really just indicative of the size to which this cancer of usury has grown.

People who can't pay their phone bills routinely encounter "heavies", there are also all sorts of loan sharks operating in the community, so called "pay day loan" outfits, Cash Converters, pawn brokers etc and they do employ muscle to get their money back.
People can end up 15-20,00 in debt from a phone plan, with credit cards it's worse and don't even ask what the real gutter crawling personal loan shark charges in interest.
In Victoria we have bailiffs, "recovery agents" and process servers who will come and hammer on a debtors door to intimidate and harass them.
Making money from interest is immoral, it's a form of slavery, perhaps if the "occupy" groups went down to their local
shopping strip and protested in a "think global, act local" action they might see some results.
Small loans, credit cards, parking fines etc and loan sharking are what's crippling the "99%" in this country and also in the developing world, the Banksters are probably out of reach for now but running the Shylocks out of your local town is probably achievable.

The interesting thing about these "occupiers", the Rent a Crowd protestors is that you never see them at any local demo's, in the past two years I've been to half a dozen suburban protests over one thing and another and a couple in the city relating to crime and sentencing.
I also know all these professional "Lefties" by reputation or just from seeing them around town (in spite of it's size Melbourne only has a small political activist scene) and they never ,ever turn up at a rally against inappropriate development, or public safety.