let s be clear. richard when you re hollowing out at middle, a middle used to be powered by those manufacturing jobs, and you remace it with jobs that don t even pay enough to send the kid to college, let alone buy a house, that s a real problem for the economy. you could have strong manufacturing but a not strong middle. it s not something people want to hear. so, the first thing we have to do is make those bad jobs better. we can t go anywhere with 60 million crappy low-wage service jobs. my dad worked at a factory. he started in 1934. took nine people to make a family wage. he came back with his service from world war ii, and with the unionization, social compact, productivity was up, he had great job in the manufacturing. we can do the same thing for service workers today. the other thing is not every manufacturing job is a good job in america. for every aircraft assembler or tool and die maker, taking home 50 grand or more a year, we have suing machine operators and others mak