The whole "surest sign yet of the recession" joke is getting old, so we won't make it here. Still, it is a sad, sad day in New York when Richard Blakely's Media Meshing event at Sweet and Vicious gets shut down down because all the media people with whom one would normally mesh with are either a) not hiring or b) unemployed themselves.
Says the Gawker videographer:
"This time last year people would have several offers to move to various places. Now people are just happy to keep the jobs they have…And it seems kind of rude to be getting trashed when people are without jobs — no one wants the party to take on a desperate kind of vibe."
Don't worry y'all, there is still one Media Mesh left, so go and pour out a margarita for your homeboys over at Conde Nast.
You know, the American People from all walks of life, Boston, New York City, Washington, L.A. Seattle, Chicago, the farmlands of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, …. the Dakotas, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico etc….. we ALL know THE TRUTH and we don't care what the Government says or what the Government tells the Media to say. We knew that things were becoming a mess 4 years ago. Maybe even more. This recession that supposedly started a year ago? That another Government Bullshit Lie. Two, three years after this war that is pouring money out of this country like pouring water thru a collader is wiping us out, along with the Government, a la NAFTA and getting into bed with Industry and the Far East, selling us out to cheap labor so that these companies can turn a BIG, quick profit to stuff their pockets with and give us the drug of good cheap items, make us addicted to this stuff. The Unions getting their people good cheap health insurance, retirement benefits and $75/hour to screw in a few bolts a day, making their product much too expensive to compete with the foreign market, so, inevitably, they force the companies out of business…. ALL OF THEM sold us out. I went to a lamp store to buy a new, nice lamp shade. The ones made in the USA went for $135 a piece-those made in China, looked the same, felt the same, were sold for $35. Which one would YOU buy, even if you wanted to support the workers of this country?
It's a just a big game and this country is the loser.