U.S. Middle Class nearly gone

[BenSkywalker]

Extreme capitalism, that is - untamed and unfettered, I disagree with. It's already destroying the middle class in America - and the DC metro area is the pretty much the only "buffer" left for the middle class, thanks to all of those government/tech/medical jobs (largely funded by the government altogether).

The US Economy is regulated to an obscene degree- comical in its' severity. I don't know where you get the impression that it is otherwise. DC is a massive money pit, the government takes money from hard working people all over the US to hand it out to non productive drains on society in DC. DC hurts the middle class in profound ways on many levels.

If America didn't rebuild itself during the Great Depression with millions of government-issued jobs

This is flat out wrong, WW2 pulled us out of the great depression- not government spending.

and never become the world's #1 superpower after WW2 that required the infrastructure in the first place.

Eisenhower got the interstates going- he was busy with things outside of Washington DC in the 30's and 40's