C'mon, snarl, that's bullshit. The middle class has shrunk because our manfacturing base has been hollowed out. It started with cars, then appliances, then electronics, and now it's almost all consumer goods. None of those things are made here anymore.
Bloomington used to have RCA, GE, Westinghouse, and Otis. All are gone, along with the middle class jobs they provided. Cook, Baxter, and Catalent pay half of what those manufacturing jobs paid. If you're in health care or at IU in a white collar position you can do okay in this town, but otherwise it's a heavy lift.
As long as we demand cheap goods and don't give two shits where they're made, the middle class as we once knew it is gone.