JR
I'm impressed with your reply.
You have a handle on a lot of the inside activities and efforts!

Maybe It's difficult to be self-insured ... but every time I think about $10 million PER YEAR ... it just seems that more could be accomplished with it.
Investors love opportunities, anyone think of reaching out to them ?

Maybe we need to hire a good business consultant.

Maybe if we were self-insured we could take more calculated risk with Jets And Helicopters .... and get off their backs !

Why can't the magazine be self supporting like others ... business plan ?

Well as you can see ... I have more questions than answers.
But $10 million plus dollars PER YEAR .... and SECONDARY insurance ... and people working for free. WOW
I know businessmen that have a small business GROSSING approx $1 million per year, and they managed to become multi-millionairs.

The AMA seems to be a status-quo organization from the outside. They are not representing the modeler as WE would like ( derived from all the comments here and elsewhere).

Our pastime needs to be organized and have a governing body ... something to call our own, thats for sure. And we can all agree that It has accomplished some things. But what better things can be accomplished with the money. I think most people agree that $50.00 per year is manageable considering the cost of hobbies. Lets just not throw it away ! Agreed ??? ( Responsible Spending )