Well, at least you can’t accuse these bureaucrats of not thinking outside the box (via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune):
It was not difficult to find critics when the government job-service engine Workforce Central Florida said it was spending more than $70,000 of federal stimulus money to help the unemployed by handing out 6,000 satiny capes for jobless “superheroes” to “fight” “Dr. Evil Unemployment.”
“Absolutely absurd” was the reaction of a laid-off customer-service representative to the program. Several critics interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel noted that such a program further erodes the unemployed’s fragile self-respect.
Workforce Central Florida, though, remained convinced. In the words of a spokeswoman, “Everyone is a superhero in the fight against unemployment.”
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The best the victims of propagandized ‘education’ can come up with is some fantasy instead of solid logic and true understanding.
“Everyone is a superhero in the fight against unemployment.”
That’s like when some kid in camp works his little butt off to prep and win a race, and every other kid gets a ribbon because “We’re ALL winners”.
Ask Jeffrey Tucker, he constantly tells that those who wake up in the morning to go to work and give the best of themselves hard at work are heroes. He also says that shop owners, restaurant owners and business owners that produce wealth are super heroes.
Yes, superheroes fighting against unemployment exist, they are called ENTREPRENEURS !
Hey, it’s government spending, and therefore good for the economy.
I know you were being facetious, but even granting that premise validity wouldn’t this money be better spent by WCF in employing 2 or 3 of the unemployed in their own office for a year?
Or hiring one resume-help professional or interview coach?
Or throwing the money into the streets of Orlando?
Or anything with more capital value than freaking CAPES?
Apparently they’ve never seen “The Incredibles.”
I remember when AMD had a similar campaign. It was an attempt to boost morale during a recession. It sucked. I blame the Fed.
On top of that i assume those Superman costumes were made in china? Utterly absurd!
…that cape idea is similar to President Gerald Ford’s brilliant “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) buttons (..costing way more than $9,000) in 1974.
Wise government actors must motivate dumb citizens with simple visual symbols (?)
This, so much this. I’m normally given to snickering when I hear of programs and philosophies totally misapprehending an economic problem, and sometimes I even chortle aloud, but I guffawed unapologetically while listening to Ron Paul describe WIN buttons.
Wouldn’t a person wearing a cape have a smaller chance of getting a job?
Not if you’re applying for a job as child entertainer at a mall.
Really? Are these parasites with their tax-funded sinecure really so out of touch as to think that this is clever?
Boom Voyage and Bust Voyage, The Evil Twins, supported by Fed Luthor.
Absolute proof that the ruling classes are utterly demented. Sad.
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