Then why does the petition specifically mention using the monkey bars?
Then why does it specifically state at the end of the first paragraph “(We) feel that it is our right to have access to the equipment that occupies the playgrounds.”
First of all, I’ve never been in a city or any significant size that doesn’t have some parks with pull up bars and dip stations. So I’d like to know what cities specifically this is a problem for, or if instead you’re just trying to stir up trouble. Second, if you’re city councilman doesn’t give a damn about it, why does my congressmen have to get invovled.
What part of its not a federal government issue in any shape form or fashion is confusing? A city not taking the course of action you want doesn’t make for a congressional crisis. You mention the constitutional duties in you’re petition. Well, the constitutional duty of the congress in this issue is to tell you to write you’re city council and stop wasting their time, because it isn’t their problem, nor is it within the scope of their authority.
If you were doing this idiotic petition with a little less accusative wording to a municipality, I wouldn’t call it idiotic. I’d oppose it for the other reasons I’ve mentioned in my posts, but at least then you would be calling for a policy change at the appropriate level. Hell, you aren’t even bothering stopping at the state level from what I can tell. Nope, straight to the top. And for most states, if not all, I’m willing to bet its not withint in their power to address either. BECAUSE ITS A CITY ISSUE.
If you had actually read my post, you’d see I’m clearly not worried about someone falling off monkey bars and hurting my kid. Where in my post at any point do I say I’m worried about a kid getting hurt by an adult falling of the monkey bars? Don’t waste much time looking, because its not there. I’m worried about the only people who would actually use this non-existant right - child molestors. I say the only people because adults who work out aren’t using the chin up bars and dip stations I see at parks now.
I’m also worried about having to spend extra city tax dollars in response to a congressional mandate to upgrade equipment that isn’t meant to handle adults using it as excercise equipment. I’ll add there is a lot of this stuff in my city, and no one uses it as anything but a jogging trail. I clearly stated that in my post. Instead of disputing that, you made up an argument about concern for my child getting hurt from a falling adult that appears absolutely no where in any form in my first post. Impressive debate skills. No wonder the the petition almost reads like a crazed manifesto.
Like I already pointed out, you’re petition specifically claims a right to use playground quipment to excercise, so don’t give me the ‘we want our own equipment argument again.’ Read the last line of the first paragraph of YOUR petition.
I’m all for a city building workout equipment for citizens IF there is a need for it. There just isn’t. Most places that have this stuff don’t get any siginificant use, if any at all except for maybe a handful in densley populated urban areas that already have crowded playgrounds. You might get thousands of signatures on this thing, but I’d be shocked if anywhere close to a significant number of them use the resources built for this purpose that are already available in their communities, if they’ve even made an effort to find them. I’ll say it again, there is no clamoring mass of body weight enthusiasts desperately searching for a congressionally mandated municipally funded chin up bar.