Day 2 of the Occupation of Philadelphia was a good deal more organized than Day 1. There were tables and tents all over the place and the occupiers now have defined groups and lists of what they need.

This is the second medical area and they appeared to have food there as well.

Food tables. When I came by later, they were still setting up. I noted the bikes parked around the fence.

Still more bikes as an occupier prepares more signs. Video (MP4) of some guitar playing.

Tents were placed around. Two young people asked to interview me for what  was apparently a school competition of some sort. They asked me if I was aware of the death of Steve Jobs of Apple computers. I said that I was. They were curious as to how I felt about large corporations in general as Apple was apparently okay, but other large corporations weren't. I replied that there were many large corporations, banks and other lending institutions behind the housing bubble, but that there were many large corporations that do positive social good and many who just work at making money and do a reasonably good job at it.

They asked what the main concern of the occupiers was. I replied that our country had paid vastly too much attention to deficit reduction since early 2010. That was the wrong focus, it was the wrong question. The real focus of national policy should be how to get Americans back to work. A commenter insisted that America has a 9% unemployment rate simply because people are lazy. I noted that presidential candidate Herman Cain shares that same analysis, but no, a 2% to 3% unemployment rate might be explained as just normal churning, people quitting jobs they dislike, people looking for better jobs, etc. 9% is very clearly the result of bad policy.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz explains that the main problem with today's economy is too little regulation of corporations and that jobs are the number one priority.

Reporter Naomi Klein also madea speech at Occupy Wall Street and writes out her detailed thoughts about how the 1% is fighting the 99%.

Occupiers facing the street. We got lots of supportive car-horn honking!