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Job Growth Would Make Unemployed Feel Like Superheroes
COMMENTARY | A job center in Orlando, Fla., apparently in an attempt to buck up the morale of the unemployed, spent $14, 000 to buy 6, 000 "superhero capes" as part of a "Cape-a-Bility" program that included a cartoon character, "Dr. Evil Unemployment."
Naturally, finger pointing and demands for an investigation have ensued.
Government bureaucrats are notorious in their alacrity in wasting money. But this program took considerable imagination which, one would think, would be useful in the private sector.
One can also just imagine the thoughts that would go to some poor unemployed person, laid off from his job for months, with the mortgage late and the power company threatening a cutoff, when his or her employment counselor hands over a bright, red superhero cape and tells him or her to go forth and do battle with "Dr. Evil Unemployment." They don't have a job placement, mind, but the cape would look pretty good on a person when he is reduced to panhandling on a busy street corner.
It is too bad that whichever government drone came up with this scheme could not have found a way to grant super powers along with the cape. A person with super strength could turn a lump of coal into a diamond, for example. Someone with super speed could mow a hundred lawns in the time it takes most people to do just one. Someone with telepathic powers could make a killing in the stock market. And, of course, the traditional crime fighting possibilities are just endless, as are the super villain opportunities.
At least the "Cape-a-Bility" program provided some jobs for weavers, presuming that the production of the capes was not outsourced to some place like China. A note to the investigators: This needs to be checked out thoroughly.
In all seriousness now, one has to ask the question, what were they thinking? There is one way to give the unemployed hope and good morale, and that is to give him or her a job. The job might not be at the same level as the one formerly enjoyed by the unemployed person, but there is nothing like being able to once again earn money after weeks and months of hopelessly seeing the bills pile up and taking stock of one's rapidly diminishing self-esteem.
Better yet, how about some pro-economic growth policies from government for a change? It worked during the Reagan 1980s, after all. It could do so again.
Source: Job center blasted for giving capes to unemployed, AP, April 19, 2011
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