It have ups and downs but it is still a term, structural change for the worse. -Middle class people are going to have to stop doing businesses with large corporations that don't pay fair wages and instead Single seniors want orgasm forest women sex patronize corporations with better employee treatment and small, local businesses that put money back in to the community. This is going to involve extra effort for people who are already stretched thin. -We're going to have to roll back ALL the Bush tax cuts not just the tax cuts for the wealthy. Middle class people have to go back to their old tax rates and might even have to give up home mortgage deductions ( other countries don't have them and they are a de facto tax on the poor ) All the, white, middle class people who are stuck moving back with their parents because they have $80, in student loans are going to have to realize they are lucky to have generational wealth and parents who own a home. A whole generation of people with diminished economic opportunities are going to have to pay back the loans AND pay more taxes AND the revenue isn't going to come back to them. It's going to have to go to the desperately poor people who are in most dire need and the most immediate problems like childhood obesity/hunger, extending unemployment benefits, climate change and rehabilitating veterans coming home. Middle class people are going to have to take back representative democracy and limit corporate influence and personhood possibly with a Constitutional Amendment. They are going to have to suffer a lot financially if they want the middle class to continue to exist. Only investing (with tax revenue not debt) in things that strengthen the middle class in the future like education and social programs and willfully controlling how they spend money and what sacrifices they are willing to make can make this possible. We've run out of credit. This isn't something government can do. I tend to large corporations and the stock market as the culprit not the government ( which didn't create this situation and can't fix it). We've had austerity programs before ( World II). People are already suffering but they have to confront some harsh realities and suffer in a more constructive, intentional form.