re: #149 prairiefire

Too much doom and gloom! Social Security paved the way for the great middle class expansion after WW2. My great grand parents were hard scrabble farmers until Social Security. When that was in place, my grand parents were free to have their own careers and families with out supporting the previous generation.

Social Security gives rise to the modern middle class? Amazing, you will want to provide a citation or two for that one. Is this a footnote or is this, in your opinion, the driving factor?