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Opening Arguments

Handicaped

Ah, government:

Florida officials are investigating an unemployment agency that spent public money to give 6,000 superhero capes to the jobless.

Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on the red capes as part of its "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" public relations campaign. The campaign featured a cartoon character, "Dr. Evil Unemployment," who needs to be vanquished.

Why can't we all have superhero capes? The cost would only be about $725 billion, a small price to pay for the giant boost in collective self-esteem that would result. And wouldn't it be nifty and neat if we each got to choose which dastardly supervillain to vanquish? I will myself take on Ev

Comments

Tim Zank
Wed, 04/20/2011 - 9:52am

This is just ONE example, take this program and multiply it by 10,000 minimum nationwide.

But cutting discretionary spending won't make a difference right?

sarc/off

Harl Delos
Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:32am

If giving someone a $2.35 cape gets him off unemployment and back on the tax rolls even one day sooner, it'd be a bargain.

But will it?

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