FTC Discovers Kids Hang at Mall, Like the Internets. Uses Information to Propagandize for Free Trade?

Someone at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) heard that the kids these days like to hang out at the mall. (Question: Do kids still hang out at the mall? Word on the pedestrian and cyclist-friendly street is that the American mall is dead.) Further, someone—perhaps this same enterprising person?—heard that when the kids are not shopping at DeLiA's, they totally like to watch videos on the World Wide Web.

And so this strange taxpayer-funded, candy-colored interactive online mall of free trade propaganda was born. The lessons are encourage economic literacy, pro-trade attitudes, and mall map reading skills. Click below to watch the lesson about competition.

The lesson is unobjectionable: Three pizza places at the mall? That's good. "When businesses compete, consumers win!" If there's going to be propaganda, this is the topic I'd like to see it on. But sweet baby Jesus, if the FTC keeps it up at this rate, kids will hate capitalism as much as I now hate bureaucratically-approved yellow stoner guy and his federally-funded uptight pink girlfriend.