# JamieMcGarry - Wheel yourself on down here

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**Created:** [August 25, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-wheel-yourself-on-down-here/594050 "2011-08-25T16:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-wheel-yourself-on-down-here/594050/451 "2011-08-31T00:49:55Z")

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Earlier I posted the HHFC’s mission statement, it is “The Hurley Health and Fitness Center provides comprehensive programming, education and fitness in a professional, medically based, high quality, and service oriented facility to allow members the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential in the areas of health, fitness and well-being.”  
To which you replied

> [@Slipped under the radar?? \[About me getting kicked out of gym\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipped-under-the-radar-about-me-getting-kicked-out-of-gym/593872/129):
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> Mission statement or no, if you knew _ **anything** _ about Hurley, Flint and Hurley Health and Fitness Center personally, you would understand my point a little clearer. They serve the needs of the disabled; as long as those needs are convenient and don’t require any sort of action or accomodation of any kind (obvious sarcasm). And _ **again** _, it’s not about what I personally want to have for my individual workouts. It’s the fact that no wheelchair-bound individual can get a proper fitness training session here.

and now you’ve changed what you’ve decided that stand for from the above to the following:

> [@jamiemcgarry](#):
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> But they most definitely _ **are** _ violating the spirit of the Hurley Hospital Organization’s commitment to helping meet the needs of all the underserved members of the community.

This what people have pointing out to you here and there. You change your arguments to suit your needs. You feel you get to decide things for other people. The HHFC mission statement is right on their website. THAT’S what they stand for, not what you decided the stand for…and then the other thing you decided they stand for.  
Hey, maybe they do serve the needs of the disabled and the under served, but you’ll notice neither of those things are in their mission statement. A mission statement that’s carefully worded and well thought out (probably by the board members and PR people), not just thrown together by a webmaster that looked at an empty spot and said “Hmm, what can I put here?”

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