Occupy Wall Street

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That depends on what national media you read/watch/listen to.

Talk news radio/NPR and CNN.com but to get back on topic-

I'm not quite sure what these occupy Wall St. folks are trying to accomplish other than to express frustration on how they view the country's (world's for that matter) financial system. What is the goal? For the Fortune 500 companies like Apple to surrender billions in cash to the people...?? That's what I kind of get out of it.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Talk news radio/NPR and CNN.com but to get back on topic-

Yes, it is a sidelink to sidestories on CNN.com. If I went based on what talk news radio and NPR discuss, there would be a lot more topics on the general public's radar. I listen to NPR everyday and when I raise topics to people based on NPR topics, people are almost always like "huh?"

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I'm not quite sure what these occupy Wall St. folks are trying to accomplish other than to express frustration on how they view the country's (world's for that matter) financial system. What is the goal? For the Fortune 500 companies like Apple to surrender billions in cash to the people...?? That's what I kind of get out of it.

A lot of people are not quite sure what's up with this which is probably one reason why the American media is treating this as a side story. If we downplay this, whatever the heck it is (LOL), these angry people will shut up and go away. (When we think about it, many of the people who fuel the mainstream news media are the same people who fuel the sources of American capitalism, etc.)

Until there's a police fight and people get hurt while Occupying Wall Street. Then the media will make it late breaking news. And that's what some of these news sources did.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I'm not quite sure what these occupy Wall St. folks are trying to accomplish other than to express frustration on how they view the country's (world's for that matter) financial system. What is the goal? For the Fortune 500 companies like Apple to surrender billions in cash to the people...?? That's what I kind of get out of it.

This. I thought I was just naive or not understanding their point/goals, but apparently not. I get they they don't like the way things are (not many people do), but they don't seem to have any better ideas.