Powerful middle class, Good jobs, Save for retirement? Speaking for myself, I have never seen a powerful middle class. The beginning of the end started with Nixon. Lets see thats a long time ago, 1968. I personaly have never seen good jobs. Lucky to hold a job three years in this civilian work force. In the middle 70s through the 80s there were no jobs anywhere (recession) Unless you were a doctor, lawyer, teacher. All the factory, oil field, and construction jobs were disapearing. I was on the union list here never got hired. All this tech stuff did not happen until the 90s. Save for retirement? All my family on both sides lost most, if not all thier retirements to the several stock market crashes over the years (2000 era recessions) Good thing there is social security. That is all alot of people have to pay for thier retirement home fees. I paid into Social Security its my money. Its not pathetic. The government that stole it is legalized crime.