I've spent a few days thinking about how I would respond to your post and I have finally figured it out and it comes down to basically a few thoughts:
1) Whether I'm a member or not is irrelevant. How I spend my money is also irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
2) How the AMA spends the money they receive from members and the results of the money spent is very relevant.

Now, let me address #2:
The AMA officers and staff are spending millions of dollars and really getting nothing in return. They are overstaffed due to having people actively working on things that are nothing more than white elephants. Here's my take on what's going on in Muncie:
1) Having several people running a history/records department is ludicrous. How often are things of historical value received or records set? To pay people to do nothing for at least 90% of the time makes no sense.
2) Running a retail department is also ludicrous. The AMA's job is to lobby for model aviation, be a source of information on model aviation and be a source of liability insurance. To have a retail department with a paid staff makes no sense either. It would be one thing is they sold items that people need or really want but, that said, they don't run an online hobby supply site, there isn't enough people using the facilities in Muncie to open a hobby shop at that location and it's a known fact that the local hobby shops are dying a slow death due to the internet.
3) Why does Muncie pay a full time staff to maintain the grounds? Contracting out to a grounds maintenance company and have them come in as needed would be much more cost effective. They wouldn't need to pay a staff or store, maintain and supply fuel for the equipment
4) Why does Muncie need to build an indoor flying facility? Some on the executive committee feel this is a needed project with no real means to make it cost effective. When you consider that the flying field is rarely used, why do they need to build another facility at the cost of several hundred thousand dollars?
5) Earlier this year, one of the officers decided there needed to be a board meeting. Even though almost the entire board was at an event on the west coast, this officer claimed the meeting HAD TO BE IN MUNCIE!!!!! He felt the meeting had to have the Muncie staff on hand to facilitate the meeting. This would also mean that the officers would have to travel to Muncie while getting all of their expenses paid out of the AMA's treasury. Where is the logic to this? It was nothing more than a way to get a vacation paid for by the members. Then again, why can't the officers hold a meeting over skype or similar? Many new computers have this capability right out of the box or can have it downloaded in. It would be much more cost effective to have meetings held this way than have all of the officers travel to Muncie several times per year and cost the members over $100,000 per year in reimbursement.

Now, let's get back to the "Am I a Hater" question. As far as the AMA goes, I have nothing against it or what is stands for. When it was founded, it was probably one of the best resources around for people both experienced and new to the hobby. This was a very good thing for everyone.
Decades later, it's now like a boat or RV, something you throw money at to keep it going. Being someone that has an RV, I know how expensive it is to maintain one and how to spend my maintenance funds wisely. The officers and staff have forgotten what it means to be fiscally responsible and that is the first place where I have an issue. Spending money, just because you have it to spend, is something I can not tolerate by officers and staff of an organization that is funded by dues paying members. Just as important is the requirements needed to become an officer. Only leader members can be officers and, to be a leader member, you must be given that position by the officers. This means that the officers can pick and choose who they want in positions of power and, apparently, that means people of like mind are the ones that will be chosen to to be in the position of leader member. To expand on that a bit further, that means that no one from the general membership has any real say into what's happening as their only recourse is to contact their area VP and hope their words actually get to the board for discussion. This is the second place I have an issue.
Now, let's go on to my third issue. For this, I need to go back in time to July, 1945. WWII is winding down with Germany defeated, Italy defected to the allies and Japan is down to just the home islands. The cruiser USS Indianapolis had just delivered the first atomic bomb to the Marianas Islands and was headed for the Philippines, a trip she would never finish due to Japanese submarine torpedoes. Of 1196 men aboard, 900 would make it into the water but only 316 would be rescued. No one knew she was missing until the pilot of a PV-1 patrol bomber on a routine antisubmarine patrol saw men in the water. To make it simple, the war had gotten so large and the Indianapolis' mission so secret that she had gotten lost in the red tape. That's exactly what's happening in the AMA. The organization has gotten so large that the individual members have gotten lost in the red tape. Several have tried to contact the AMA office with questions and have gotten non-answers or no answers for their time. Franklin has referred to at least twice where he's contacted the AMA office and got no results or non-answers.
Let me wrap this up with this:
"Again I ask are you even an AMA member or just a hater." Whether I'm a member or not is not the issue, it's whether I hate the AMA or not. I don't hate the AMA for what it was. It was originally a very beneficial organization. What I do hate is what the AMA has become. It's become a money pit and "Good Ol' Boys" club that thinks it's a be all end all organization. In my opinion, it's outlived it's usefulness and should be closed down as a relic of the past since it's not looking to the future of model aviation, just it's own survival