Originally Posted by La Texican
How is a link to the president's hope for bringing back middle class jobs related to not making Mark the moderator bring his big stick?

It was technically a response to the "dying thread" aspect of the sentence, not the "big stick" aspect.

I don't know how much farmshoring is going on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmshoring

I thought we were also talking about the need for jobs in between "investment banker" and "burger-flipper".

If you don't have mid-range jobs, you end up with rich or poor and nothing in between.