Let me be the first to say I'm NOT a member and, with all the stuff I've been reading, it's hard to justify the cost of membership. Knowing that people like Rich Hanson want to waste money on white elephants and that the home office is a payroll glut, just to name a few reasons, I just can't justify spending the money. I think the part that really slams the door shut, in my case anyway, is to see how some of the members try to gloss over or rationalize the issues rather than admit the organization has some very serious problems. Until the powers that be can figure out how to cut costs and be considerably more fiscally responsible, just for starters, it's not worth it