This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, October 11, 2011. I'm Caleb Brown.

The protesters behind Occupy Wall Street have their grievances, but few of them appear to be with the policies of President Obama.

The primary target appears to be corporate America, large financial institutions,

and the price of higher education.

John Samples, director of the Cato Institute Center for Representative Government

wants to know if the young people of Occupy Wall Street

want to change something to benefit themselves,

why isn't it entitlements?

A lot of people think that both the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements are grassroots,

reactions to economic Malays, and also to the policy mistakes of the began in 2008 and therefore

a lot of people including Lawrence Lessick a professor at Harvard Law School have said you know there

should be a real political unity between the Tea Party and the people on the left or maybe

Occupy Wall Street.

And I suspect that the Tea Party people

probably have some doubts about that.

So I guess we don't really know a lot except what we're getting in the media about

Occupy Wall Street protesters my colleague Emily Ekins did a lot of public policy

public opinion research on Tea Party so we know what they think. We'll find out

about the Occupy Wall Street people over time but it looks like they styling themselves

as the Tea Party of the left.

I guess one thing I would pose as a question to them is if we got rid of corporate power,

if the businesses didn't have disproportionate influence,

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