Florida agency spends $14,000 in public funds on 6,000 superhero capes for the jobless
21st April 2011
Cargo-cult politics: Dress like a superhero and you’ll be a superhero! What could be simpler?
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.
I guess Florida is hiring its civil servants from former Sesame Street employees — that, and it thinks that the unemployed are mentally deficient. Hm. They may have something there.
(Of course, Edna Mode showed us why capes are a stupid idea for superheros. And a state agency would never adopt a stupid idea, would it?)