es-cape from the planet gone apeshit

This country has freakin gone apeshit, and now I know why people are forking over $200,000. to go to space. A job center spent taxpayer money to give 6,000 unemployed people super hero capes. Why? So they could rescue us hard working employed saps from the drudgery of the gulag. Unlike real super heroes they probably can't leap tall buildings, but can leap over turnstiles to avoid paying a fare. They can't bend steel in their bare hands, but as long as they can get freebies they'll barely work. They're not faster than a speeding bullet, unless there's a line forming at the local soup kitchen. I've seen better heroes at the deli.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110419/ap_on_re_us/us_capes_for_the_unemployed