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Problem Solved? Florida Agency Spends $14,000 For Superhero Capes For the Unemployed

There is a bizarre story out of Florida where officials at an unemployment agency reportedly spent $14,000 to give 6,000 superhero capes to the unemployed. It was part of its “Cape-A-Bility Challenge” featuring a cartoon character, “Dr. Evil Unemployment.”

Workforce Central Florida Director Gary J. Earl, however, insisted that the program was a success in connecting with the community. I am not sure that the unemployed really want to “connect” with the agency. They just want jobs and they already are pretty opposed to unemployment. No need to create “Dr. Evil Unemployment.” Unemployment is pretty clearly bad to everyone. It is not like there were people on the fence between whether to view unemployment as a superhero or a villain.

Wouldn’t the cash have been more useful for the jobless? Superhero jobs are notoriously difficult to get and to keep. Besides with health care costs of superheroing (in addition to the costs of a reliable sidekick) are prohibitively expensive. More importantly, cheaper superheros have been coming into the country from Asia and Latin America and other areas — as shown by the Turkish and Indian imports below:

Source: Yahoo

26 thoughts on “Problem Solved? Florida Agency Spends $14,000 For Superhero Capes For the Unemployed”

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  2. they should’ve given away batman masks. at least that would be useful during a bank robbery.

    and yes florida has always been for sale, rarely to the highest bidder. just ask anyone who made it through hurricane andrew what a building code is.

  5. The government takes money from the pockets of people who had to work hard to get them. Then, instead of trying to make their lives better, they use it to buy some ridiculous superhero capes. I don’t think that would be something the jobless, desperate people would need right now. It doesn’t actually do anything to help an unemployed person get a job.

  8. Yes, here in Florida we prefer to promote the image that we are creating jobs rather than actually creating them.

  9. If the agency can show that it raised substantially more than $14,000 in donations because of the capes we can write it off as an odd but effective advertising campaign. Otherwise, you have to question the judgment of the person in charge of it.

  10. Super hero capes? Are masks next? Shouldn’t the governor be wearing a cape because he has done such a super human job of selling Florida to the highest bidder.

  11. Florida high school graduation rates hit 79% in 2010 up from 55% in 2000 … we’ll see what happens under Rick Scott.

    Anyone care to wager?

    Buddha … “Let them eat capes?” … excellent

  12. Otteray Scribe 1, April 20, 2011 at 10:16 am
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    🙁
    I know.
    It is waaaaay too interesting for my taste here. Which is a shame because it is true….for all the nasties there are some very very lovely people who are incredibly intelligent,bright and talented and they just seem to get steamrolled by the P’sTB.

    I heard an old quote recently …”the mightiest Dragon cannot crush a local Snake” and I’ve seen it proven true here in South Florida….

  14. Buddha Is Laughing 1, April 20, 2011 at 10:10 am
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    bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha! oh thank you….if it weren’t for the laffs ……who knows…….
    that was most excellent…..:)

  17. I lived in Florida for a few years. It is the oddest collection of dingbats, morons, wingnuts and full-time losers I have ever seen anywhere. There are some very good people, bright, capable and competent but they are over run by the fruits and nuts. This sort of stupidity from them does not surprise me.

  18. hahahaha!

    welcome to Florida, this is one of the least strange things I’ve seen over the past 10 years…

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