|| Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days. ||
Archie Bunker in the early 1970s sung about how great the 1940s were for Americans and how terrible the 1970s were. Curiously, it's become fashionable in the last couple decades to claim North America was at some kind of cultural and economic peak in the 1970s.