The statistics may prove how hard it is to get a job, but it is appearing to many that those aren't the reasons why the protestors don't have a job.
I think most people are realizing that this is not the face of unemployed america, and if it is, there isn't much hope for the future.

People put up with them for a while because they were drawing attention to a real problem, but realized too soon that most were an embarassing, lazy, dirty, drug laced group that were detracting more than helping.