what should be done to help the middle class in the current economy?

A National Jobs Program similar to Civilian Conservation Corps. of FDR...imho.

Give them control of the industry that they labor under.

In response to the "gas prices" answerer: gas prices can't just be "lowered." The costs of extracting and storing the gas are those of the country's that extract the oil (several OPEC countries, Canada, Venezuela), and then the various firms that buy the oil from those countries set their prices based on how much they had to pay. Individual businesses have to set the price per gallon based on what their owning corporations have set. It's not like the government has a big button that says "lower gas prices." Apart from some domestic regulations and taxation, the government has nothing to do with the price of gas - let alone enough to lower its cost to 2 percent.

The most important thing, would be lowering of the price of gasoline back to 2.00 a gallon, tho that would cause everything to cost less, big business would frown on that.

Lower taxes, stop spending money we don't have, stop the Obama health care from being forced on everyone (Unconstitutional), promote the private sector, and finally study Reagan and learn from the past.

The middle class was eliminated during the 90s; first leave dreamland.

Clean up Wall Street and Hollywood if you know what I mean.

The government needs to stop putting a stranglehold on small and medium sized businesses. While large businesses seem to be doing alright, small and medium sized businesses are not.

Reasonable unions that don't get pushed around. Would be a start