Posted on 04/19/2011 11:28:57 AM PDT by Stoutcat
If the country weren’t in such bad financial shape, this would actually be funny. Or at least, you know, fun to mock, in a disbelieving sort of way.
It seems that the state of Florida is spending a boatload of cash in order to buy capes for the jobless. I guess it’s to make them feel good about being unemployed or something. According to the Orlando Sentinel:
Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida features a cartoon character named “Dr. Evil Unemployment” and includes handing out about 6,000 red superhero capes to jobless Central Floridians…“The plight of the unemployed is why we exist,”[Workforce Central Florida Executive Director Gary J.] Earl wrote, “and to help them, we have to engage them, introduce them to our services and connect them with job opportunities.”
Apparently, engaging the unemployed requires forcing them to imagine themselves as fictional superheroes. It might be of more benefit if the agency helped them envision themselves with actual jobs...
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Personally, I prefer Dr. Horrible and the Evil League of Evil.
Florida... cape... evil...
This short video is not too much of a stretch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYVtkDDumG8
One more instance of the “not for profit” organizational mentality.
Out of touch with reality. “Not for profit” or “non-profit” adminstrators ride their Prius’ or bikes to their taxpayer funded job for 4 or so hours a day while preening themselves in front of their peers about working for the ‘people’. And this is what they produce–playtime! For themselves.
Meanwhile much taxpayer money never gets where it should be going. To the needy.
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