Adult Only Beach Area

[Pembroke_Corgi]

But you DO have a voice in what your municipal taxes go toward!

I have yet to vote against a school budget increase. (oops, one exception. I DID vote against a new school in the town we used to live in.......mainly because the town had JUST finished renovating the school that the new school has replaced. I have something against a town paying $40 million to renovate a school to have the school board ask for another increase 6 months later to tear the whole thing down and build new)

I also wouldn't have an issue with something like this is it was voted on by the general public in an election.

A tad off topic, but.......

If you don't like what your rep in DC is doing, vote them out of office! People can't be too upset with what's going on in DC because last time I checked the re-election rate was still north of 80%

National elections are a joke....the electoral college is outdated and probably still in place so we voters have less power. I believe in some states, the college can actually vote for a different candidate than the one that gets the most votes. The last presidential election was an example of when my vote counted for nothing. I did not vote for Bush, but slightly more people in my state at the time did, so it went for Bush, therefore rendering my vote useless.

If we had a true democracy instead of a republic I would be more inclined to think voting actually works. In small elections, yes, you can make a difference. Perhaps that is even where it counts most. But in large scale elections I am beginning to think we are making nothing more than a statement by going to the polls, because in 2000 Gore won the popular vote but lost the election most likely due to shady polls activity (yet we are supposed to be ruled by majority- even if there wasn't any suspicious activity, he should still have won due to popular vote) and in 2000 it was pretty much the same thing all over again except Kerry didn't get the popular vote (most likely because all of the people waiting at the polls for hours because they were too poor to take off work to vote so they couldn't cast one).

I wish I could believe that if everyone really cared enough to vote (most people do not care or even know what is going on, so that is probably why the same people keep getting re-elected) we could change our country for the better. But I really don't believe that anymore, because all the evidence I've seen points to the contrary.

[Freckles]

I didn't read this thread at first because I thought it was referring to "Adults only" in another way.

[Kfamr]

I didn't read this thread at first because I thought it was referring to "Adults only" in another way.

Ditto.


I think the idea is a nice one. The beach can often be headaching with a bunch of children running around. But, I've found "adults" can be just as obnoxious on the beach as children.

Which is why I prefer to go out to the islands... usually there's no one else around.

[Lady's Human]

PC, you need to take another look at the history and purpose of the electoral college. It is in place to ensure that a candidate cannot win on popular vote alone. The reason for this is so that states which have little to no population (NH, WY, WV, RI, etc) still have a voice in the presidential election. Without it a candidate could run in urban areas, completely ignore the rural population, and get elected.

I'm thankful we DO NOT have a direct democracy. In a direct democracy, one could pander to the populations of Chicago, LA, NYC, and 2 or three other urban areas, and completely run roughshod over the rest of the country with no consequences.

That having been said, the Electoral College cover ONE part of the national political process. ONE. Representatives in the house are directly elected, as are Senators. As are your state governing bodies. Your state and municipal elections should (and do) have far more effect in your life than a federal election. Frankly, I don't want the federal government involved in my day to day existence, and constitutionally it was never meant to have that type of power.

[lizbud]

I thought it was funny that one of the lifeguards is just 18yrs old.
they said they don't actually check ID in that kid free zone, but settle
for "eye balling" people who show up.

Oh, btw, they had a vote response to the question of kid free zones at
the beach and results were 71% yes & 29% no to this idea.

[sparks19]

I thought it was funny that one of the lifeguards is just 18yrs old.
they said they don't actually check ID in that kid free zone, but settle
for "eye balling" people who show up.

Oh, btw, they had a vote response to the question of kid free zones at
the beach and results were 71% yes & 29% no to this idea.

I was just gonna say.... it's a nice idea but who is going to enforce it? Is that 18 year old security guard going to tell a group of 16 year olds they can't come in? God he's liable to be killed anymore.

[lizbud]

I was just gonna say.... it's a nice idea but who is going to enforce it? Is that 18 year old security guard going to tell a group of 16 year olds they can't come in? God he's liable to be killed anymore.

He's not a security guard, he's a lifeguard and I'd imagine most people
there have a cell phone to alert police to any problems.

[sparks19]

He's not a security guard, he's a lifeguard and I'd imagine most people
there have a cell phone to alert police to any problems.

I know he's a lifeguard I didn't realize I said security guard until just now lol..... but I'm assuming he is the only "employee" to enforce this rule. and yes they could call the police but they would still have to deal with the disruptions they were trying to avaoid by having this beach in the first place.



Not to mention that I also see a lot of the more irresponsible parents using the "adult" part to get away from their kids while they leave their kids unattended in the public area.

I'm all for an adults only beach area.... just like they have adults only swim times at pools.... but I just see this causing more problems than it's solving.