A Tennessee dry cleaner is offering free services to the unemployed:
Magnolia Cleaners will clean a person’s professional job interview clothes, up to $25 per week, according to The Daily Post-Athenian. That amounts to the equivalent of two men’s or women’s two-piece suits and two dress shirts or two dresses.
With the unemployment rate at 13.8 percent in McMinn County, the company wants to help people facing difficult times by giving them a more confident appearance when they interview for jobs.
During the Depression, Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration arrested a tailor for charging a nickel too little to press a suit. What will his protege in the White House do when he finds out about this?
One wonders how much worse things would be now, if the NRA had survived to the present day. Good chance the Second World War or the Cold War would have turned out differently.
As usual, a private individual makes a meaningful contribution while the government spends money it doesn’t have to help its friends. Unlike the Obama regime’s tax/borrow/spend/payoff schemes, this is stimulus with a purpose.