Paul,

That is the $64,000.00 question isn't it?  How does Oregon attract/create upper lower class and lower middle class jobs for those who are living here already?  The retirement industry and tourist industry doesn't really create those long term kinds of jobs but that seems to be what the Oregon economy is pegged to.  Oregon also has a third growth industry, government and government spending.  A citizen politician can't do much about the first two but can dramatically affect the third while planning for the reality of the first two, which you are already doing.