Billions on jungle gyms, bike paths

Yeah. Here's Ted Kennedy, that slim paragon of workout virtue who has access to more jungle gyms than anyone in the world, who wants to spend billions on stuff to aid our "health infrastructure." Looks like he's done that all his life. Whaddya think the likelihood is that obese Americans are going to change their ways and start going to a new training circuit at, say, Hood Park on weekends? What? You say, you haven't seen them at the Frank School training circuit? I thought so. EXTRINSIC motivation, rather than INTRINSIC motivation, when it comes to working out, tends to peter out after one pulled muscle. Let's blow billions we don't have. Read at Red State:

But advocates, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, defend the proposed spending as a necessary way to promote healthier lives and, in the long run, cut medical costs. “These are not public works grants; they are community transformation grants,’’ said Anthony Coley, a spokesman for Kennedy, chairman of the Senate health committee whose healthcare bill includes the projects.

“If improving the lighting in a playground or clearing a walking path or a bike path or restoring a park are determined as needed by a community to create more opportunities for physical activity, we should not prohibit this from happening,’’ Coley said in a statement.