We see news reports about fathers and mothers begging on the streets for money so they can provide their children with just a few scraps of food before they put them to bed at night.
Newspapers and magazines show us pictures of factories that have been around for generations having to shut their doors for good.
These images evoke not only our deepest sympathies, but also serve to remind us of how lucky we are.
What these images and reports don't show is the whole story. Where are the pictures of the hockey masks and machetes just sitting on the store shelves collecting dust. How about the videos showing escaped mental patients speeding away in cars? Where are those at?
No where. That's where they are. People seem to forget that a down economy affects everyone. Even those who may not always be in the public eye.
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| Jason before the economy dropped |
I'm talking about those all to often over-looked summer camp killers. At one time landing a job as a summer camp killer paid as well as getting a job at some Fortune 500 companies... of course, that was close to 20 years ago. Now a summer camp killer is lucky to get minimum wage.
"It used to be that every summer camp in the United States and Canada had their very own summer camp killer," Jason Voorhees said, possibly the most famous summer camp killer in history. "Now, there are maybe 23 of left."
When the bottom fell out of the economy many summer camps were forced to cut their staff. The first to go were the life guards then nurses, camp counselors and finally the summer camp killers.
Some summer camps tried to hold onto their killers by trying to work out deals such as having the summer camp killer pay for his/her own tools. But machetes, drills, bow and arrows, etc. are just way to expensive to keep buying over and over again.
"I know when things got real bad some summer camp killers pooled their money to hire one summer camp killer who would spend just a week or two at each other camps," Jason explained. "Kind of like a time share summer camp killer."
While this method proved effective for a little bit, eventually these time share summer camp killers couldn't afford the high gas prices of driving from camp to camp.
Many summer camp killers were forced to seek other occupations such as McDonald's managers, sport store associates and politicians.
"Yeah, I'm still working as a summer camp killer but its definitely not like it was in the old days," Jason said starring wistfully out the at the lake he had drowned in all those years ago. "Now, I mostly just scare people which I feel isn't fair to them. They deserve better."
With the economy slowly starting to turn around maybe its not to crazy to hope that some day in the near future we will once again see summer camp killers trudging through the forests wildly swinging a machete or hiding under camp counselors beds.
What a glorious day that will be.
