No, Tony. Not true. I grew up in a world where if a politician was caught doing something unacceptable, he stepped down. We used to have something called a code of honour.

I recall one ghostwriting job where my client said that when she was at Stanford, students could be depended on to pay for something or other (I forgot what I was, but if they took something, they put the money in), and how, in later years, as the culture changed, Stanford had to change it.

In my youth, you shook hands on a deal. Mo contracrmt needed. Then as a twisted, sick culture started coming in (baby boomers), it changed, and it went from a two page contract to a 199 page contract

Newspapers were serious publications. They didn't lie. Stores marked up prices on a percentage basis - not on 'what the market will bear.'

It was a very different world to the one we have now

Of course, I didn't grow up in America.