Originally Posted by
fliers1
To be fair to the AMA top brass, what they were trying to do was essentially out of desperation. They had no other way to bring in the member numbers they so desperately need for their ever declining revenue. There just was no other place to go.
Why can't you guys get over the $$ over anything else thing??????
You simply can't value a non-profit, by the members, FOR the members association such as the AMA by looking at their bank account. Realistically, the AMA could be wildly successful with little to no $$ in the bank from year-to-year.
Take a look at where the AMA's $$ go. The lions' share goes to a magazine and salaries and expenses at Muncie. HOW, pray tell, do those things bring back value to the membership, ESPECIALLY when the salaried folks cannot carve out any exemptions, when our hobby so desperately needs them. Look at the paltry sum of members' dollars that were spent to help other members retain their flying fields. Healthy flying fields are what stimulate the hobby and will attract new members, not trying to force members to justify out-of-control, do-nothing-for-the-members budgets. Anybody remember the EC trying to spend $1M on an indoor flying sit in Muncie? Don't you think that they could develop a world-class, flying site ANYWHERE in the country that could accommodate ALL types of R/C flying AND be ANOTHER venue for contests and a potential NATS site (other than Muncie)?
Astro