Good jobs and pensions are still attainable. They're being whittled away at, but they're there. Being rich is not attainable. It's a tall mountain for most Americans, and it always was. Yet, a lot of Americans are dealing with the loss of the former by clinging to a delusional belief in achieving the latter. We can fight for middle class jobs and win. Instead, we choose to fight to be rich, where only 1 in a hundred or so are going to win. In the past 16 years the Republican party has done a number on our grasp of reality.