We did not need to buy bottled drinking water or avoid breathing the air on given days. We all had health insurance. Pharmaceutical drugs were affordable.
Business is in complete control of the machinery of government.
The trend today is to eliminate government regulations and give corporations a free ride. They say workers and the public would be nothing without them. However, it is the workers who produce. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.