. The big difference is we weren't shipping entire professional, white collar departments No, but we did that with TV set production, steel, and a few others. Before that we did the same with railroads.
I guess, you it's different for you because you were not affected.
Remember when the high income earning (white-collar) workers are out of a job everyone else foots the tax bill. They don't go out a create small businesses when the economic outlook is poor either.