Bark Park: My children never once used the playground at the Duck Pond, but I don’t begrudge other parents bringing their children
Actually, socializing my dog with others IS caring for it properly. Not to mention, well-exercised and socialized dogs make better-behaved, less aggressive and more quiet (less likely to bark) neighbors alongside non-dog-owning residents.
These are just a few of the benefits dog parks offer to the entire community. And the tired “not my tax dollars” argument makes no sense in our structure of County or Village taxes and services. I don’t play tennis, but my Village has tennis courts. I don’t drive on Street A or B but my tax money helps pave them.
My children never once used the playground at the Duck Pond, but I don’t begrudge other parents bringing their children to the swings and I suspect childless residents don’t tell parents they should have planned better to purchase their own playground equipment. Village- or County-provided services and facilities are not offered via a menu where we get to pick and choose exactly which ones our tax dollars should support, and nor should they be.
OK, now you are comparing children to pets. Just stop now. Oh yeah – and we provide schools for those children – how unfair to dog owners!
Yesterday I saw a woman on Prospect Street in Glen Rock pushing a baby stroller with a dog in it. Get a life!
Some people don’t have children or their children are grown and their pets become their family. Whatever makes you happy is how I feel. I have children and pets and use both facilities. So you should get a life and stop judging and understand other peoples point of view.
Those are beautiful dogs in that photo.
As for the dog park, it’s cool with me. I like dogs, and want to get one when I get a little more real estate. I’ll never compare my dog with my children though. Those types who never had kids and try to substitute with pets are pathetic. No, they are not your “babies”.
The county should not spend money on the dog park. Enjoy your pet and take care of it the old fashioned way. If you are feeling generous, invite other dog owners over to “socialize” your pet. If you decide to get a pet then plan to take care of it. I have had dogs and I walked them, ran them and threw the ball to them in my yard. If you are going to complain that you don’t have a yard then get one of those tiny dogs with 4″ legs. Just walking is exhausting for them.
The limited county funds should be spent on programs for people, not for dogs.
I am “judging” where my money goes. Fundraise for a private dog park.
The people who just own pets and do not have children still pay for YOUR children to go to school. Be careful what you wish for. If the childless couples, empty nesters, and singles move out of town so you new yuppies can over-run the place, your precious offspring will have split sessions in school and 40 in a class.
The Village ‘isn’t all about YOU”.
#6: those people pay for an education system that fills the corporate pipeline with financiers, researchers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, designers, technologists, and on and on. All of whom contribute to the social industrial construct that enable those people to live in houses, travel on roads, and shop for pet food in stores that are built, networked and supported by millions of graduates from our public school systems.
So no, they are not merely paying for MY kids to go to school. They are paying for their way of life.
#7 Rob you sound like a real socialist. Its not my responsibility to pay to educate the children of others, and certainly not subsidize the education of those who have a lot more money than I do. If those in the ‘corporate pipeline of financiers (=crooks), researchers, doctors, lawyers (liars), engineers, designers, technologists) want to provide me with their services for free, then I’ll pay for their education. You can’t have it both ways. All of the above that you referenced are grossly overpaid and don’t need a subsidy from me.
They can pay for their own ‘way of life’. Or mommy and daddy can.
Ah, #8, I knew you’d be here! Yes, you might pay for a service and think that you’re even, but if you think that the price you are charged for a prescription of Viagra represents the true cost of what went into the creation of your little bottle of happiness you are sorely mistaken!
Keep your taxes then, you opposite-of-whatever-you-consider-a-socialist-to-be.
In return: stay off our roads. Don’t buy anything that Cargill or Monsanto had anything to do with (in other words: stay out of the supermarkets and restaurants), they hire products of the public schools. I trust you will farm your food on your own property, which is not connected to a power grid, sewer or water system. Avoid the internet, as the US government funded a large part of its technological development, and lots of that development was made possible by publicly educated researchers.
If you can’t understand why it is important that every American have an opportunity for a decent education, and why that benefits all Americans, then I really don’t know what to say to you. If people like you were making decisions, the fabric of our society (do you see that word has the same Latin root as “socialism”? Boo! Booga booga!) would unravel into anarchy. Somehow I doubt you would last long afterwards.
If you have a problem paying for education then move to a state where they have low taxes and crappy schools.
Public education is mandatory. I don’t think that the gov’t has a Dept of Dog Socialization yet. There are a lot of services for people that I do not use in this town, but I don’t mind that. I do not want to support peoples hobbies and pets.
This post begins with the premise that pets are equal to children. Once the foolishness of this is pointed out the rest makes no sense. A government of the people, by the people, for the people. Don’t use my tax money for a playpen for dogs. How about using it for police, fire, roads or schools?
#11, you forgot graft. Lots of sweet, sweet graft.